The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners

This article reports on an experimental study on the acquisition of prepositional relative clauses in second language European Portuguese by Chinese native speakers. It focuses on the role of resumption, mandatory in prepositional relative clauses in Chinese (the native language of the learners) and...

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Autores: Espírito Santo, Ana, Alexandre, Nélia, Perpiñán, Sílvia
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57549
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resumptive pronouns
syntactic islands
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spelling The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learnersEspírito Santo, AnaAlexandre, NéliaPerpiñán, Sílvianull-preppied-pipingprepositional relative clausesresumptive pronounssyntactic islandsThis article reports on an experimental study on the acquisition of prepositional relative clauses in second language European Portuguese by Chinese native speakers. It focuses on the role of resumption, mandatory in prepositional relative clauses in Chinese (the native language of the learners) and non-conventional in European Portuguese (the target language). Results of an oral production task and two online acceptability judgment tasks indicated that resumption does not transfer from the native language, and that Chinese learners of European Portuguese employ movement structures to produce and process relative clauses. Additionally, results showed that resumptive pronouns do not rescue or ameliorate ungrammatical extractions from islands, contrary to what is traditionally assumed in grammatical theory. This finding was kept constant across participants, native and non-native. Overall, we conclude that second language speakers are able to select and reassemble movement features in their non-native language and use similar processing mechanisms as native speakers to analyse island configurations.SAGE Publications202320232024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/57549http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02676583221137715reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésSecond Language Research. 2024;40(1):103-38.© The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/575492026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
title The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
spellingShingle The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
Espírito Santo, Ana
null-prep
pied-piping
prepositional relative clauses
resumptive pronouns
syntactic islands
title_short The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
title_full The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
title_fullStr The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
title_full_unstemmed The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
title_sort The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Espírito Santo, Ana
Alexandre, Nélia
Perpiñán, Sílvia
author Espírito Santo, Ana
author_facet Espírito Santo, Ana
Alexandre, Nélia
Perpiñán, Sílvia
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author2 Alexandre, Nélia
Perpiñán, Sílvia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv null-prep
pied-piping
prepositional relative clauses
resumptive pronouns
syntactic islands
topic null-prep
pied-piping
prepositional relative clauses
resumptive pronouns
syntactic islands
description This article reports on an experimental study on the acquisition of prepositional relative clauses in second language European Portuguese by Chinese native speakers. It focuses on the role of resumption, mandatory in prepositional relative clauses in Chinese (the native language of the learners) and non-conventional in European Portuguese (the target language). Results of an oral production task and two online acceptability judgment tasks indicated that resumption does not transfer from the native language, and that Chinese learners of European Portuguese employ movement structures to produce and process relative clauses. Additionally, results showed that resumptive pronouns do not rescue or ameliorate ungrammatical extractions from islands, contrary to what is traditionally assumed in grammatical theory. This finding was kept constant across participants, native and non-native. Overall, we conclude that second language speakers are able to select and reassemble movement features in their non-native language and use similar processing mechanisms as native speakers to analyse island configurations.
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