The Overt Pronoun Constraint Across Three Dialects of Spanish.
| Autores | Gelormini-Lezama C, Huepe D, Herrera E, Melloni M, Manes F, García AM, Ibáñez A. |
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| Año | 2016 |
| Journal | J Psycholinguist Res |
| Volumen | 2016 Apr 9 |
| Abstract | The overt pronoun constraint (OPC) states that, in null subject languages, overt pronoun subjects of embedded clauses cannot be bound by wh- or quantifier antecedents. Through the administration of two written questionnaires, we examined the OPC in 246 monolingual native speakers of three dialects of Spanish, spoken in Barranquilla (Colombia), Santiago (Chile), and Buenos Aires (Argentina). We tested separately the predictions that overt pronouns cannot be bound by wh- antecedents (Experiment 1) and that they cannot be bound by quantifier antecedents (Experiment 2). We found that the OPC was not operative in any of these dialects. In Experiment 1, the percentage of bound answers was approximately the same as the percentage of anaphoric answers. In Experiment 2, the percentage of bound answers was significantly higher than the percentage of anaphoric answers. Implications both for theories of pronoun resolution in null subject languages and for theories of first and second language acquisition are discussed. |
| Resumen | En este trabajo los autores investigan la interpretación de pronombres en Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile y Barranquilla. Los resultados muestran que los hablantes nativos de español interpretan el pronombre explícito contrariando las predicciones de la teoría chomskyana, lo cual informa tanto a las teorías de adquisición del lenguaje como a las teorías de procesamiento lingüístico. |