Does empirical data from bilingual and native Spanish corpora meet linguistic theory? The role of discourse context in variation of subject expression

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• dc.contributor.author García Alcaraz, Estela
• dc.contributor.author Bel, Aurora
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-04-30T09:23:46Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract The goal of this study is to shed light on how empirical data on the discourse constraints of null and overt third person subject pronouns in L1 and bilingual Spanish meet linguistic theory. A (semi)spontaneous production task was administered to 34 Moroccan Arabic (MA)/Spanish early sequential bilinguals and 30 L1 Spanish controls. All 3rd person subject positions were coded: (1) morphosyntactic form (null pronoun vs. overt pronoun); (2) discourse function ([-Topic Shift] vs. [+Topic Shift]); (3) sentence relation (intrasentential vs. intersentential); (4) clause order within intrasentential contexts (main-subordinate vs. subordinate-main); and (5) access to the antecedent (clear vs. ambiguous antecedent). The results reveal general patterns of use in both L1 and bilingual Spanish: null pronouns express topic maintenance both in inter- and intrasentential contexts (both clause orders) and overt pronouns, especially in intersentential contexts, are generally used for topic change. However, additional analyses provide evidence that null pronouns in L1, but not in bilingual Spanish, are often used in change of reference contexts where the antecedent is not ambiguous. This reveals patterns that have gone unreported by most previous descriptive and theoretical studies. Finally, a higher use of ambiguous null pronouns is attested among bilingual speakers, which suggests a lower control of the mechanisms by which reference is established in discourse and supports, to some extent, the predictions derived from the Interface Hypothesis.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education through the FPU program (Estela García-Alcaraz) and two research projects VARIAD FFI2012-35058 and CONTACT FFI2016-75082-P (Principal Investigator: Aurora Bel).
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• dc.identifier.citation García Alcaraz E, Bel A. Does empirical data from bilingual and native Spanish corpora meet linguistic theory? The role of discourse context in variation of subject expression. Applied Linguistics Review. 2019;10(4):491-515. DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2017-0101
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2017-0101
• dc.identifier.issn 1868-6303
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44381
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher De Gruyter
• dc.relation.ispartof Applied Linguistics Review. 2019;10(4):491-515
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2012-35058
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-75082-P
• dc.rights © De Gruyter Published version available at https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/alr/alr-overview.xml http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2017-0101
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• dc.subject.keyword Subject pronounsen
• dc.subject.keyword Anaphora resolutionen
• dc.subject.keyword Production dataen
• dc.subject.keyword Early sequential bilingual acquisitionen
• dc.title Does empirical data from bilingual and native Spanish corpora meet linguistic theory? The role of discourse context in variation of subject expressionen
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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