Estudo sobre um parâmetro de tarefa e um parâmetro amostral para experimentos com julgamentos de aceitabilidade temporalizados

Souza, Ricardo Augusto de; Oliveira, Cândido Samuel Fonseca de; Silva, Jesiel Soares; Penzin, Alberto Gallo Araújo; Santos, Alexandre Alves dos

doi:10.17851/2237-2083.23.1.211-244

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“…Behavioral evidence supporting this analysis comes from studies of untimed acceptability judgments (Souza, 2011) and speeded acceptability judgments with monolingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (Souza, Oliveira, Silva, Penzin & Santos, 2015), which reveal that, in a time window of just 4 seconds, sentences like (2a) and (2b) elicit acceptability judgments significantly lower than those elicited by grammatical sentences. Also, the level of acceptability elicited by such sentences did not differ significantly from the judgments elicited by sentences containing violations of agreement and long-distance dependencies.…”

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Bilingual innovations: Experimental evidence offers clues regarding the psycholinguistics of language change

2016

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Sustained interaction between a bilingual's two languages can be a first step toward diachronic language change. We describe two investigations that explore this by examining how bilinguals process innovative syntactic structures in their first language. In the first investigation, a sentence recall/sentence matching task, bilinguals and monolinguals exhibited differences in their tolerance of expressions of induced motion, which vary in acceptability between the two languages (Portuguese and English). In the second investigation, a priming methodology was employed to induce bilinguals to produce in their first language (Spanish) innovative constructions modeled on the second language (English), using materials where the alternation is shared between the two languages (voice, reciprocal) or not (dative). The two investigations provide a window into how languages interact in bilinguals, inducing tolerance of ungrammaticality which, we will argue, could lead to long-term novel representations in the linguistic competence repositories.

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Section: Study 1: Manner Of Motion Verbs In English and Portuguesementioning

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“…The materials design was somewhat more complex than for the preceding studies conducted by Souza and colleagues (Souza, 2011Souza et al, 2015). Specifically, the target construction (grammatical in English, ungrammatical in Portuguese) would be compared to two kinds of control materials: grammatical and ungrammatical.…”

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2016

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“…The acceptability judgment task was timed: subjects had a time limit of 6 seconds to indicate their scores on the keyboard. The decision to perform a speed version of this widely used task was based on (SOUZA et al, 2015), who reported that speakers were able to emit reliable judgments in up to 4 seconds. This time limitation intends to avoid subjects' use of metalinguistic information or even prescriptive grammar rules.…”

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Frequency effects of L2 English on the processing of the passive in L1 Brazilian Portuguese / Efeitos de frequência da L2 inglês no processamento da passiva em L2 português brasileiro

Guimarães

2021

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This study investigated the influence of experience with L2 English in the processing of passives in L1 Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by high-proficiency bilinguals and BP monolinguals. Based on the premise that high L2 proficiency is indicative of widespread representational sharing (BERNOLET; HARTSUIKER; PICKERING, 2013) and on the observation that the passive is significantly more productive in English than in BP (GUIMARÃES; SOUZA, 2016), bilinguals’ processing of the construction is expected to be facilitated by L2 exposure. Subjects performed an acceptability judgment task and two sentence elicitation tasks. Both groups considered the passive as acceptable as the active, with no significant differences between the two groups’ judgments of the passive. Differences were found in the oral production of passives between bilinguals and monolinguals, but not in written production: task type influenced the production of monolinguals in that passive productivity fell significantly from the written to the oral task. The difference in productivity levels of the passive between bilinguals and monolinguals is attributed to bilinguals’ exposure to the construction’s distributional properties in the L2, supporting models of bilingual shared representations (HARTSUIKER; PICKERING; VELTKAMP, 2004).Keywords: bilingualism; frequency effects; L2 proficiency; passive construction; acceptability judgment; written production; oral production.Resumo: Este estudo investigou a influência da experiência com L2 inglês no processamento de passivas em L1 português brasileiro (PB) por bilíngues de alta proficiência e monolíngues do PB. Baseando-se na premissa de que alta proficiência em L2 é indicativa de compartilhamento generalizado de representações (BERNOLET; HARTSUIKER; PICKERING, 2013) e na observação de que a passiva é significativamente mais produtiva em inglês do que no PB (GUIMARÃES; SOUZA, 2016)propomos uma visão construcional da construção, na qual ela é tomada como entidade teórica independente. Apesar de sintaticamente congruente no português brasileiro (PB, espera-se que o processamento da construção por bilíngues seja facilitado pela exposição à L2. A compreensão da construção foi observada através de uma tarefa de julgamento de aceitabilidade de sentenças, enquanto a produção foi observada a partir de duas tarefas de descrição de imagens (uma escrita e outra oral). Tanto bilíngues quando monolíngues julgaram a passiva tão aceitável quanto a ativa, sem diferença significativa nos julgamentos entre os dois perfis linguísticos. Apesar de as passivas terem sido menos frequentes do que as ativas nas tarefas de produção, o tipo de tarefa influenciou o número de ocorrências de passivas dentre os monolíngues: sua produção foi similar à dos bilíngues na tarefa escrita, mas significativamente menor na tarefa oral. A diferença nos níveis de produtividade de passivas entre bilíngues e monolíngues é atribuída à exposição dos bilíngues às propriedades distribucionais da construção na L2, corroborando modelos de compartilhamento representacional bilíngue (HARTSUIKER; PICKERING; VELTKAMP, 2004).Palavras-chave: bilinguismo; efeitos de frequência; proficiência em L2; construção passiva; julgamento de aceitabilidade; produção escrita; produção oral.

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“…In Experiment 2, we conducted a timed acceptability judgment task with a six-second time limit, based on the suggestions of Souza, Oliveira, Soares-Silva, Penzin and Santos (2015). Two groups of bilinguals and one group of NSs of English read sentences similar to those in Experiment 1.…”

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

Oliveira

Penzin

2019

Ilha do Desterro

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This study aims to add to the body of evidence regarding the linguistic structures that seem to be more challenging in L2 acquisition than in L1 acquisition (DeKeyser, 2005; Ellis, 2008; Inagaki, 2001; Slabakova, 2014; Sorace, 2011). The Negative Evidence Hypothesis (NEH) (AUTHOR) predicts that bilinguals are less sensitive than native speakers to violations resulted from the overgeneralization of an L2-specific rule. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing the behavior of Brazilian Portuguese-English bilinguals with different profiles towards double-object construction with unlicensed verbs in two acceptability judgment tasks. The results corroborate the NEH by conveying that bilinguals gain sensitivity as they become more proficient, yet, the data suggests that not even when immersed in the L2, they become as sensitive as native speakers.

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Estudo sobre um parâmetro de tarefa e um parâmetro amostral para experimentos com julgamentos de aceitabilidade temporalizados

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Bilingual innovations: Experimental evidence offers clues regarding the psycholinguistics of language change

Bilingual innovations: Experimental evidence offers clues regarding the psycholinguistics of language change

Frequency effects of L2 English on the processing of the passive in L1 Brazilian Portuguese / Efeitos de frequência da L2 inglês no processamento da passiva em L2 português brasileiro

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

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