Study of the interlanguage of deafs, users of Brazilian Sign Language, in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v8i1.1122Keywords:
Language acquisition, Brazilian Sign Language, L2 Portuguese, Definite generics, Bare nounAbstract
The study examines the interlanguage of deafs (users of the Brazilian Sign Language) learning Portuguese as a second language. In particular, the manifestation of bare nominals (in the singular) and definite generics (in the singular and in the plural) is taken into consideration. The high frequency of singular bare nouns is analysed as L1 transfer, given that LSB does not have (definite) articles. Assuming that number is an interpretable feature on the generic definite DP, it is proposed that the linguistic development takes place through the syntactic mapping of morpho(phono)logical properties of the (plural) definite article on the functional head Number.
KEYWORDS: Language acquisition. Brazilian Sign Language. L2 Portuguese. Definite generics. Bare noun.
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