On some null subject parameter-related properties in the L3 acquisition of brazilian portuguese (Sobre algumas propriedades relacionadas ao parâmetro do sujeito nulo na aquisição do português brasileiro como L3 )

Silvina Montrul; Rejane Dias; Hélade Santos

doi:10.22481/el.v7i2.1096

Autores/as

Silvina Montrul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6011-5959
Rejane Dias University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Hélade Santos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v7i2.1096

Palabras clave:

Null subject parameter, L3 acquisition, Brazilian Portuguese

Resumen

As language undergoing language change, Brazilian Portuguese presents characteristics of both pro-drop and non-pro drop systems. This study investigates the acquisition of two properties assumed to be related to the null subject parameter—clitic-climbing and the that-t effect—by adult learners of Brazilian Portuguese who speak a pro-drop language (Spanish) (n = 11) and a non pro-drop language (English) (n =19) as either L1 or L2. Results of an acceptability judgment task showed that the non-native speakers overall converged on the grammars of the Brazilian Portuguese control group (n =19), but there were transfer effects from Spanish for the L1-Spanish speaking learners and from both Spanish and English in the L1-English speaking learners. We discuss the implications of these findings for the role of transfer in L3 acquisition.

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Biografía del autor/a

Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)

Silvina Montrul is Associate Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and SLATE in the Department of Linguistics and in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She is the author of The Acquisition of Spanish (John Benjamins 2004) and Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism (John Benjamins 2008), as well as of numerous articles on L2 acquisition and bilingualism in journals like Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, The International Journal of Bilingualism.

Rejane Dias, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)

Rejane Dias is a doctoral student in the department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of the chapter “Subject expression in the non-native acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese,” in press in A. Pires and J. Rothman (Eds.). Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition: Case Studies across Portuguese. Berlin/New York: Mouton De Gruyter.

Hélade Santos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)

Hélade Scutti Santos is a doctoral student in the department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of “Typology matters. Clitics and object expression in the L3 acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese,” under review in a special issue of Second Language Research on L3 acquisition.

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