Language processing, acceptability, and statistical distribution: A study of null and overt subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
详细信息 查看全文
- 作者：Amit Almora ; b ; almor@sc.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Jefferson de Carvalho Maiab ; Maria Luiza Cunha Limac ; Mirta Verniced ; Carlos Gelormini-Lezamae
- 关键词：Repeated names ; Null pronouns ; Overt pronouns ; Brazilian Portuguese ; Repeated-name-penalty ; Overt-pronouns-penalty
- 刊名：Journal of Memory and Language
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：92
- 期：Complete
- 页码：98-113
- 全文大小：806 K
文摘
- •
Brazilian Portuguese is shifting away from null subjects toward overt subjects.
- •
It nevertheless shows both repeated-name and overt-pronoun processing penalties.
- •
Speakers’ acceptability judgments cannot explain the overt pronoun penalty.
- •
Corpus language use patterns also fail to explain this effect.
- •
A pragmatic theory that incorporates usage statistics is proposed.