Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian

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Autor(a) principal: Fiéis, Alexandra
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Madeira, Ana, Teixeira, Joana
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/144828
Resumo: The present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian,interpretnull and overt pronominal subjectsin intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30speakers of EP and 30of Italian. Each language group was administered two multiple-choicetasks (speeded and untimed), whichcrossedthe following variables: 'animacy of the matrix object'([+ human]vs. [-human]) and 'type of pronominal embedded subject'(overt vs. null). Our results showthat there is microvariation in the resolution of overt pronominal subjects in EP and in Italian: the position of the antecedent is the most relevant factor in EP, whereas, in Italian, the animacy of the antecedent is the preponderant factor. Moreover,our results reveal that the resolution of null subjects is an area of microvariation: the bias for subject antecedents is weaker in Italian than in EP. Possible reasons for the observed microvariation are discussed in detail
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spelling Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. ItalianCiências da linguagemlanguage sciencesThe present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian,interpretnull and overt pronominal subjectsin intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30speakers of EP and 30of Italian. Each language group was administered two multiple-choicetasks (speeded and untimed), whichcrossedthe following variables: 'animacy of the matrix object'([+ human]vs. [-human]) and 'type of pronominal embedded subject'(overt vs. null). Our results showthat there is microvariation in the resolution of overt pronominal subjects in EP and in Italian: the position of the antecedent is the most relevant factor in EP, whereas, in Italian, the animacy of the antecedent is the preponderant factor. Moreover,our results reveal that the resolution of null subjects is an area of microvariation: the bias for subject antecedents is weaker in Italian than in EP. Possible reasons for the observed microvariation are discussed in detail20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10216/144828eng10.5565/rev/isogloss.220Fiéis, AlexandraMadeira, AnaTeixeira, Joanainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-29T13:17:57Zoai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/144828Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T23:37:53.135287Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
spellingShingle Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
Fiéis, Alexandra
Ciências da linguagem
language sciences
title_short Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
title_full Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
title_fullStr Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
title_full_unstemmed Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
title_sort Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
author Fiéis, Alexandra
author_facet Fiéis, Alexandra
Madeira, Ana
Teixeira, Joana
author_role author
author2 Madeira, Ana
Teixeira, Joana
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fiéis, Alexandra
Madeira, Ana
Teixeira, Joana
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Ciências da linguagem
language sciences
topic Ciências da linguagem
language sciences
description The present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian,interpretnull and overt pronominal subjectsin intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30speakers of EP and 30of Italian. Each language group was administered two multiple-choicetasks (speeded and untimed), whichcrossedthe following variables: 'animacy of the matrix object'([+ human]vs. [-human]) and 'type of pronominal embedded subject'(overt vs. null). Our results showthat there is microvariation in the resolution of overt pronominal subjects in EP and in Italian: the position of the antecedent is the most relevant factor in EP, whereas, in Italian, the animacy of the antecedent is the preponderant factor. Moreover,our results reveal that the resolution of null subjects is an area of microvariation: the bias for subject antecedents is weaker in Italian than in EP. Possible reasons for the observed microvariation are discussed in detail
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