A influência da reflexividade verbal no processamento da anáfora se

• Autor(a) principal: Henrique, Judithe Genuíno
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• 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/123456789/29942
• topic: Reflexividade verbal; Anáforas; Verbo; Processamento anafórico; Reflexivity; Anaphora; Verb; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

The aim of the research is to analyze and explain verbal reflexivity and its role in the processing of the anaphor se, based on experiments conducted with native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. We assume that reflexivity is a property of predicates, as proposed by Reinhart and Reuland (1993) within the scope of the Theory of Reflexivity. Many studies, both in Portuguese and in other languages, seek to bring linguistic theories closer to psycholinguistic studies. Research that deals with anaphoric processing in the English language, such as Nicol & Swinney (1989), and those by Oliveira et al. (2012), in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), investigated the filter of the structural principles of Binding Theory (CHOMSKY, 1981) and found results that showed only the influence of syntactic factors in the processing of the anaphora. Other investigations in Brazilian Portuguese point to the influence of both structural factors and verb semantics in language acquisition and processing (GROLLA, 2012; LACERDA, 2014). Thus, we seek to analyze to what extent the type of verb influences the anaphoric processing. We decided, therefore, to use the reflexive-nature verbal classification, established by Godoy (2012), alongside the anaphora se. Thus, we conducted two experimental tasks, one offline and one online. The first experiment, carried out through the Google Forms platform, focused on assessing whether the classification established by Godoy (2012), on the reflexive nature of verbs, would be considered acceptable by BP speakers as reflexive. Their judgments were in accordance with the established classification. The second experiment was programmed in the Cognition.run platform and conducted online with participants. It aimed to find out to what extent the verb type influenced the reading of anaphoric sentences. For that, we used only two verbal groups from Godoy’s (2012) classification, Verbs of Affection and Verbs of Change of State, and three types of variables (NULL, SE and NP). We found a significant effect of the type of the variable used, that is, sentences in the NULL and SE variables had faster processing times than those with NPs. These results indicate that the reading times between the conditions that presented NULL and SE, respectively, had, practically, the same reading times, which leads us to believe that the sentences without the anaphoric reflexive SE were also read as reflexive. Therefore, we can say that there was an influence of the verb type since the presence of this verbal type caused the sentences to be read as reflexive.