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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Overt Pronouns"”.
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Interpretation and processing of overt pronouns in Korean, English and L2-acquisition
… primary research questions (RQs): 1) How are overt pronouns in Korean interpreted? 2) How are overt pronouns in Korean processed? 3) How do the properties of overt pronouns in Korean affect Korean-speaking English-learners’ interpretation and processing of English pronouns? Experiment 1 …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
… examines the interpretation of Japanese overt 3rd person pronouns by native (N=21) and advanced L1-English/L2-Japanese (N=20) speakers, using interpretation, reaction-time, and eye-tracking data. Previous studies have investigated L1 and L2 pronoun interpretation in null-subject languages …
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the Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay In Spanish Anaphora Comprehension
… on anaphoric expressions such as repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns. Gordon, Grosz, and Gilliom (1993) showed that repeated names are harder to process than pronouns when the antecedent is the subject of a sentence, an effect which they called the Repeated Name Penalty (RNP). The …
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PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
… (PAH) advocated by (Carminati, 2002), null and overt subjects retrieve antecedents in different structural positions. Pronoun-antecedent agreement is based exclusively on the syntactic configuration of a clause in which a null pronoun is bound to a sentential subject antecedent; however, an …
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PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
… (PAH) advocated by (Carminati, 2002), null and overt subjects retrieve antecedents in different structural positions. Pronoun-antecedent agreement is based exclusively on the syntactic configuration of a clause in which a null pronoun is bound to a sentential subject antecedent; however, an …
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The second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in English, Italian and Polish: testing the Interface Hypothesis
… and Polish native speaker tendencies to use overt pronouns to corefer with non-subject antecedents. Moreover, in the structures containing interface properties,the Italian and Polish native speakers expressed an unexpected degree of flexibility in their pronoun preferences in contexts where …
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Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
… language in Chile. The focus is on null and overt third-person subjects in topic-continuity and topic-shift contexts. Such structures involve the interface between syntax and discourse/pragmatics, a vulnerable domain in bilingualism. Previous research has shown overextension of the scope of …
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L1 attrition in Italian: Pronominal reference and (pseudo-)relative parsing ambiguities
… discourse constraints for specific forms (e.g., overt pronouns in null-subject languages) and (ii) a tendency, which we believe has so far gone largely unnoticed, for speakers to rely more heavily on other (interpretive) biases already present in L1. To explore this second pattern and disentangle …
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Text-Picture Integration during Inferential Processing by L1 and L2 English and Chinese Speakers: Individual Differences and Script Effects
… support the theory that the null elements and overt pronouns are pragmatically constrained. Regarding L2 anaphora resolution, the results are consistent with the claim that even the advanced L2ers are susceptible to transfer errors as they “misanalyse” the L2 data to make them compatible with …