Variable rules meet Impoverishment theory: Patterns of agreement leveling in English varieties

Nevins, Andrew; Parrott, Jeffrey K.

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.05.008

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“…5 A extração de informações 3 Utiliza-se, conforme a literatura gerativista minimalista, a nomenclatura DP para se referir ao sujeito composto por um determinante e um nome e TP para designar a relação Spec-head estabelecida entre sujeito e verbo quando o DP é movido para Spec,TP, onde o traço [número] do verbo pode, então, ser checado de acordo com o DP sujeito. 4 Subespecificação também é um conceito adotado pela Morfologia Distribuída (MD) (EMBICK, 2015;HALLE;MARANTZ, 1993;NEVINS;PARROTT, 2010). No entanto, neste artigo, assume-se a visão de Rooryck (1994): "At first sight, underspecified α-valued features simply appear to be unspecified features, but I argue that their complete absence of specification plays a role in the grammar 'variable' or αfeatures have no 'fixed' value, but can 'pass on' the features of the elements surrounding them" (ROORYCK, 1994, p. 209 -destaques do autor).…”

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A expressão morfofonológica da concordância de número variável em português brasileiro: uma proposta para a aquisição e a produção infantil

Jakubów

Corrêa

2018

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Crianças brasileiras estão expostas a input de concordância de número variável (NARO, 1981; SCHERRE, 1991; SCHERRE; NARO, 1998). Explora-se, neste artigo, uma possível caracterização da representação e da produção da variação morfofonológica da concordância de número no português brasileiro. Apresentam-se os resultados de um experimento de produção eliciada conduzido com crianças em idade pré-escolar de escolas pública (EscPub) e particular (EscPriv) no Rio de Janeiro com vistas a verificar a preferência das crianças por formas redundantes (plural no artigo, no nome e no verbo) e formas não-redundantes (plural apenas no artigo), e variações entre as duas formas. EscPub não apresenta preferência em relação à concordância de número interna ao DP sujeito, enquanto EscPriv prefere a forma redundante do DP. Parte-se de um modelo procedimental da aquisição da linguagem, segundo o qual a criança extrai informação gramaticalmente relevante dos padrões morfofonológicos legíveis na interface fônica (CORRÊA, 2009, 2014). Diante de input variável, sugere-se que a representação gramatical da expressão morfofonológica de número plural estaria subespecificada, sendo, portanto, sujeita a fatores de frequência e informações de uso no momento da codificação morfofonológica na produção da linguagem (ADGER, 2007; LEVELT, 1999; YANG, 2002), o que acarretaria variação.

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A expressão morfofonológica da concordância de número variável em português brasileiro: uma proposta para a aquisição e a produção infantil

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2018

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“…The equally high rates in Catalan support this analysis for three reasons: (i) DOM seems to have no syntactic or semantic effects, as the ratings are the same in both sets of sentences; (ii) it is optional for one and the same speaker, who assigns equally high grades to sentences with and without DOM, and (iii) it may reflect social or contextual properties outside of grammar, such as style, the identity of the speaker or the type of personal relation with the interlocutor, because DOM is condemned in prescriptive grammars and thus associated to less formal registers. Following Nevins and Parrott [ 71 ], who analyze Labovian variation as the effect of probabilistic PF rules that apply in some contexts, we propose that Catalan DOM obtains from the application of a probabilistic rule that introduces the exponent a to mark case (cf. Noyer’s [ 72 ] notion of dissociated morpheme) in DPs that are syntactically assigned accusative case, as in (11).…”

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On the status of transfer in adult third language acquisition of early bilinguals

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The study of linguistic transfer—understood here in terms of the copying of previous linguistic representations—seeks to reveal how domain-relevant prior language knowledge impacts the acquisition and development of new mental representations more generally. Studying sequential multilingualism offers a natural laboratory to observe cognitive-economical mechanisms that avoid redundancy in language learning. One of the key dividing questions between theories of transfer in sequential multilingualism is the extent of transfer, that is, whether a whole previous grammar is transferred (full transfer) or a potentially different source language is selected for each linguistic property (property-by-property transfer). We adopted a novel methodological approach to this question, examining four different linguistic properties from unrelated domains of grammar across the three languages of a heterogeneous population of highly proficient, early Catalan/Spanish bilinguals with different degrees of language dominance and order of acquisition, at the very beginning of (adult) L3 English. Results are variably complex across the different properties, but compatible with a scenario where one of the previous languages, Catalan, was selected as the basis for the initial L3 English grammar of these speakers. We discuss the theoretical implications of these findings.

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“… 17 Some of the paradigm levelling phenomena discussed by Nevins & Parrot (2010) (see footnote 16 above) are categorical in some regional varieties of English, some show inter- and intra-individual variation. This may mean that the PPP patterns similarly to other paradigm levelling phenomena in this aspect of sociolinguistic variability of occurrence.…”

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“… 16 Nevins & Parrot (2010) employ impoverishment rules in their DM-analysis of agreement syncretism (‘paradigm levelling’) in various varieties of English (e.g. {You / We / They} was .…”

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The perfect participle paradox: some implications for the architecture of grammar

Breul

2014

English Language and Linguistics

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The topic of this article can be exemplified by the final clause of the following attested sentence: I don't know how he found out that she belonged to that lass, but find out he has. Clauses like this one show a preposed verb phrase that is headed by a plain verb whereas the non-preposed verb phrase of their canonical counterparts is obligatorily headed by a perfect participle (i.e. he has {found / * find} out). This peculiarity of verb phrase preposing, which will be referred to as the perfect participle paradox, has seldom been discussed. The article starts by showing that clauses that manifest the paradox are more frequent in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and in the British National Corpus than their non-paradoxical analogues with preposed canonical perfect participles. The article then looks at the paradox from the point of view of generative syntax, discusses and rejects previous analyses, and argues that a solution entails the rejection of two assumptions that have been associated with a lexicalist position, especially by proponents of distributed morphology. These are the assumptions that (a) a syntactic terminal is an item supplied by the lexicon and comprising a phonological representation and (b) that syntax may not manipulate the internal structure of syntactic terminals. The article proposes an analysis that is not based on these assumptions, but argues that the analysis does not entail the superiority of a distributed morphology framework.

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Variable rules meet Impoverishment theory: Patterns of agreement leveling in English varieties

Cited by 31 publications

References 25 publications

A expressão morfofonológica da concordância de número variável em português brasileiro: uma proposta para a aquisição e a produção infantil

A expressão morfofonológica da concordância de número variável em português brasileiro: uma proposta para a aquisição e a produção infantil

On the status of transfer in adult third language acquisition of early bilinguals

The perfect participle paradox: some implications for the architecture of grammar

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