Eduardo Correa

In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigated whether there is a preference for null or overt subjects with ambiguous (syncretic) and exclusive (unambiguous) verbs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Previous literature has proposed that BP (i) is deactivating the “Avoid Pronoun Pri...

The effect of verbal agreement marking on the use of null and overt subjects: a quantitative study of first person singular in Brazilian Portuguese

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Eduardo Correa Soares et al. (2019)

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Adaptation in Pronoun Resolution: Evidence from Brazilian and European Portuguese

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Eunice Fernandes et al. (2018)

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Previous research accounting for pronoun resolution as a problem of probabilistic inference has not explored the phenomenon of adaptation, whereby the processor constantly tracks and adapts, rationally, to changes in a statistical environment. We investigate whether Brazilian (BP) and European Portu...

Relative Clause-attachment in European (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP): Effects of verb type, tense and variety

Colloques et conférences

Eunice Fernandes et al. (2016)

Colloques et conférences

Pseudo-relative (PR) clauses have been argued to underlie high attachment (HA) preferences in RC-attachment ambiguities. PRs are possible with perception verbs which create the anticipation of a perceivable event. They demand the relative clause and the matrix clause being in the same time frame. Av...

How to turn Brazilians into Europeans: Global and local exposure effects on co-reference in European (EP) and Brazilian (BP) Portuguese

Colloques et conférences

Eunice Fernandes et al. (2016)

Colloques et conférences

Co-reference is affected by the availability of pronominal forms in the language, but the interaction of language-based (global) exposure and (local) exposure, e.g., during experiments, is still unclear. We addressed this issue in questionnaires with Overt and Null pronouns in Portuguese sentences l...