Processamento bilíngue e transferência linguística: o processamento da ordem do adjetivo e do advérbio em língua inglesa

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Joelton Duarte de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9192
• topic: Processamento linguístico; Bilinguismo; Transferência linguística; Language processing; Bilingualism; Language transfer; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

This dissertation aims to analyze how bilingual speakers (recruited both in the United States of America and Brazil) and monolingual speakers (recruited exclusively in the United States of America) process sentences in English. Considering as hypothesis the possibility that semantic and syntactic strings may be transferred from a mother tongue to a second language (ODLIN, 1989 e JARVIS & PAVLENKO, 2008), we intend to describe how native bilinguals (early bilinguals), late bilinguals, English-Portuguese Brazilian bilinguals and then monolingual speakers process the adjective and adverb order in English by using data gathered from two self-paced reading online experiments and two acceptability judgment offline experiments. We suggest by conducting this study that Brazilian bilinguals are more likely to transfer semantic and syntactic strings from their mother tongue to their L2 during second language processing, regardless if they are reading sentences that might be judged as agrammatical by a monolingual speaker, or even if these sentences are being read in a non-productivity context (AMARAL & ROEPER, 2014). Based on the experiments results, we suggest, therefore, that not only bilingual processing differs from monolingual processing (FELSER & CLAHSEN, 2006), but also both mother tongue and L2, from a bilingual speaker, are not processed in a selective way (COOK, 1991, GROSJEAN, 2008).