The negative evidence hypothesis: the acquisition of the double-object construction by Brazilian-Portuguese English bilinguals

Participants' demographics and language background is described on Table 1. We registered the following variables: subjects' age with a means of 34.77 and sex, being female two thirds of the sample. Subjects' educational background was homogeneous, all of them with tertiary or university studies, either ongoing or complete (66.77%). The use of English at home included 81% of the sample, whereas immersion in an English-speaking country corresponds only to 18%. We also registered subjects' English studies in different contexts with only 18% in kindergarten, 62.2% at Primary school, most of the sample, 91.1% at Secondary school, and 58.9% at university. In addition, participants' self-reported level of English was asked in terms of CEFR levels. As almost a third of the sample does not know their CEFR level (26.7%), we addressed proficiency measures with LexTALE scores, as explained in the experimental section of the manuscript. In addition, a ranked self-reported English proficiency from 1 to 7 has a mean of 5.46. Frequency of English use during the free time was also ranked from 1 to 7 scores, with a mean of 5.77, together with the frequency of English use at work or during studies, with a mean of 5.31. Finally, we registered the subject's knowledge of other languages besides English. Only a 13.33% has studied Portuguese, a 14.4% has studied French, both verb-framed languages, and an overwhelming

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Processamento linguístico implícito de morfemas flexionais

Rodrigues Fontoura,

Fonseca de Oliveira,

De Souza

2023

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Este estudo teve como objetivo contribuir para a investigação do conhecimento implícito de morfemas flexionais de aprendizes de inglês como segunda língua (L2). Para tanto, examinamos se aprendizes de inglês brasileiro detectam a omissão de morfemas flexionais em uma tarefa de leitura auto-cadenciada que requer conhecimento automatizado deles da L2. Expusemos os participantes a sentenças em que havia ou não omissão de morfemas de terceira pessoa do singular (-s) e passado simples (-ed). Além disso, realizamos um teste de proficiência em língua inglesa para classificar os participantes em maior e menor proficiência. Trinta e nove participantes realizaram as tarefas, sendo vinte e quatro de maior proficiência e quinze de menor proficiência. Os resultados sugerem que os participantes de maior e menor proficiência não exibiram sensibilidade à falta de morfemas -s e -ed, uma vez que seu tempo de reação foi comparável em sentenças gramaticais e agramaticais com ambos os morfemas.

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