The contribution of F0 for the interpretativo of null syntactic categories in Brazilian
This research investigates whether differences in F0 can be used as a clue to distinguish among different empty syntactic categories. Contexts with and without empty categories were tested. The contexts with empty categories involved ´trace´, ´pro´, and ´unclear´ when the empty category could be eit...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | letrônica |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/42604 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/42604 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | interface fonologia-sintaxe encontro acentual categorias sintáticas vazias phonology-syntax interface stress-clash empty syntactic categories |
| Sumario: | This research investigates whether differences in F0 can be used as a clue to distinguish among different empty syntactic categories. Contexts with and without empty categories were tested. The contexts with empty categories involved ´trace´, ´pro´, and ´unclear´ when the empty category could be either a trace or a pro. Sentences with and without stress clash were also examined. The results show that regardless of whether or not there is a stress clash environment, ´trace´ was consistently differentiated from ´pro´ and ´unclear´. The results also show that ´unclear´ consistently patterns with ‘pro’ and that no distinction is found among sentences with traces less or more distant from their antecedent. |
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