Variável ligada, antecedente cindido e interpretações de elipse em Português como L2: implicações para as teorias de aquisição de L2

Jason Rothman; Michel Iverson; Tiffany Judy

doi:10.22481/el.v7i2.1098

Autores/as

Jason Rothman University of Iowa (USA)
Michel Iverson University of Iowa (USA)
Tiffany Judy University of Iowa (USA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v7i2.1098

Palabras clave:

Overt Pronoun Constraint. Infinitivos flexionados. Aquisição de segunda língua. Acesso adulto à Gramática Universal.

Resumen

Recentemente, no quadro do Programa Minimalista, alguns relatos de acesso parcial à Gramática Universal (GU) na área de aquisição de segunda língua distinguiram entre a habilidade de adquirir novos traços funcionais depois do período crítico, baseando-se na interpretabilidade dos traços de LF (HAWKINS, 2005; HAWKINS; HATTORI, 2006; TSIMPLI; MASTROPAVLOU, 2007; TSIMPLI; DIMITRAKOPOULOU, 2007). Eles afirmam que somente os traços que não sejam interpretáveis não podem ser adquiridos após o período crítico (Interpretability Hypothesis). Ao contrário, propostas de Acesso Completo (Full Access Hypothesis) propõem que pessoas que adquirem uma segunda língua têm acesso completo ao inventário inteiro de traços da GU e que as diferenças entre a L1 e a L2 se obtêm fora da sintaxe. Os fenômenos observados neste trabalho, a aquisição adulta do Overt Pronoun Constraint OPC (MONTALBETTI, 1984) e infinitivos flexionados em português L2, desafiam a Interpretability Hypothesis, já que esta faz predições incorretas sobre os fatos observados. Os resultados desta pesquisa demonstram que estudantes avançados de português como L2 adquirem a OPC e a sintaxe e semântica dos infinitivos flexionados, atingindo um desempenho semelhante ao dos falantes nativos. Posto que os infinitivos flexionados requerem a aquisição de novos traços-? não interpretáveis, os dados fornecem evidência contra a Interpretability Hypothesis de Tsimpli e seus colegas.
PALAVRAS-CHAVES: Overt Pronoun Constraint. Infinitivos flexionados. Aquisição de segunda língua. Acesso adulto à Gramática Universal.

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Biografía del autor/a

Jason Rothman, University of Iowa (USA)

Jason Rothman is an assistant professor of Hispanic linguistics and language acquisition at the University of Iowa (USA). His main areas of research span adult L2 acquisition, bilingualism, child L1 acquisition, adult L3/Ln acquisition and comparative acquisition epistemology. From the generative paradigm, his work has mainly examined the acquisition of complex syntax and its semantic entailments as well as syntactic properties that require integration with discourse pragmatics. Recent articles have appeared or are to appear in Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Bilingualism, International Review ofApplied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition including other major journals in the field.

Michel Iverson, University of Iowa (USA)

Michel Iverson is a second-year doctoral candidate in the t he Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of Iowa (USA) specializing in Hispanic linguistics and adult language acquisition. His research focuses on adult second language acquisition, the newly emerging field of L3/Ln acquisition and heritage language acquisition from the generative linguistic paradigm, looking at both Spanish and Portuguese acquisition. His dissertation will focus on how the age of acquisition of a second language affects the acquisition of a third language. He plans to graduate in 2012. In addition to chapters in peer reviewed volumes, recent work has appeared in International Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, EuroSLA yearbook, Hispania and the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics.

Tiffany Judy, University of Iowa (USA)

Tiffany Judy is a second-year doctoral candidate in the the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of Iowa (USA). Her main area of study is Ge nerative Second Language Acquisition, although her research interests include L2 and L3 acquisition and heritage speaker bilingualism. Her previous work has examined bare infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese while more recent work has investigated adult second language acquisition of the syntax and semantics of the DP in Spanish and Portuguese, focusing mainly on Noun-drop, kind-denoting versus set-denoting interpretations and the semantics of full DPs versus Bare Plurals. She is currently conducting a bidirectional study on Null Subject Parameter resetting in adult second language learners of Spanish and English. Her dissertation will examine the end state of adult second language learners of Spanish (L1 Farsi). Her publications include several peer-reviewed book chapters as well as an in press article in Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

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