Processing of Bare Nouns in BP: investiganting interfaces between cognitive domains

Authors

  • Michele Monteiro de Souza Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
  • Cristina Name Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i46.33583

Keywords:

Language processing. Interfaces. Bare nouns.

Abstract

This study investigates bare nouns processing by Brazillian-Portuguese (BrP) native speakers. Unlike other languages, BrP may accept singular and plural bare nouns in preverbal and postverbal positions in different syntactic-semantic domains. Thus, its occurrence could rely on relationships between linguistic domains (syntax-semantics) and between linguistic and nonlinguistic domains (syntax-pragmatics). An experiment was conducted using naming task in order to elicit sentences containing bare nouns in subject position of generic sentences, kind and episodic ones. The results suggest a tendency to optionality in the use of bare nouns by BrP speakers and are discussed based on the Interface Hypothesis (SORACE; FILIACI, 2006).

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n46a1143

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Author Biographies

Michele Monteiro de Souza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Doutoranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, pesquisadora no Núcleo de Estudos em Aquisição da Linguagem e Psicolinguística (NEALP) e bolsista de doutorado CAPES.

Cristina Name, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Professora Associada ao Departamento de Letras da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, atua no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, é coordenadora do Núcleo de Estudos em Aquisição da Linguagem e Psicolinguística (NEALP) e Bolsista de Produtividade de Pesquisa do CNPq.

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Published

2018-08-30

How to Cite

de Souza, M. M., & Name, C. (2018). Processing of Bare Nouns in BP: investiganting interfaces between cognitive domains. Gragoatá, 23(46), 405-426. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i46.33583

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 46 (2018): Language: cognition and uses

Section

Language Articles

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