O processamento de expressões correferenciais em português

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Jefferson de Carvalho Maia
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Penalidades de processamento; Sujeito nulo; Português brasileiro; Português europeu; Processamento correferencial; Lingüística; Referencia (Linguistica); Psicolingüística; Língua portuguesa Brasil Pronomes; Anáfora (Lingüística); Língua portuguesa Portugal Pronomes
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUOS-9BVJLF

In this study we investigated how repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns are coreferentially processed in Brazilian Portuguese (PB) and in European Portuguese (PE). Gordon, Grosz & Gilliom (1993) showed that, in English, repeated names are harder to process than overt pronouns when they refer to antecedents in subject position, an effect they named repeated-name penalty (RNP). In addition, Lezama (2008) also showed that, in the same coreferential context, overt pronouns are, in their turn, penalized in comparison to null pronouns in Spanish, an effect the author called overt pronoun penalty (OPP). In PB, the RNP has been investigated by Leitão (2005) and collaborators (QUEIROZ & LEITÃO, 2008; LEITÃO & SIMÕES, 2011, inter alia): taken together, these studies have been showing that the RNP occurs in reference to antecedents not only in subject position, but also in object position. However, Maia & Cunha Lima (2011, 2012) presented evidence against the studies already made on the RNP in BP. Moreover, they also indicated the occurrence of the OPP, a result which, in addition to being extremely counterintuitive, is also not in accordance with several sociolinguistic studies that have been showing increasing rates of overt expressions in subject position in BP (TARALLO, 1987; PAREDES SILVA, 1988; DUARTE, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2003; KATO, 2000; CAVALCANTE & DUARTE, 2008). As regards PE, to the best of our knowledge, no study has been carried out to investigate the processing of repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns from the same perspective of Gordon, Grosz & Gilliom (1993) and Lezama (2008). Thus, in order to test the results of Maia & Cunha Lima (2011, 2012), to deepen the debate on the RNP and the OPP in BP, and undertake a possibly seminal work on the same research topic in PE, we conducted a series of six psycholinguistic experiments in the two Portuguese language varieties aforementioned, testing for different contexts and making use of different experimental paradigms (self-paced reading, eye tracking, and acceptability judgment). In PB, the results revealed the occurrence of the OPP and the absence of the RNP, in support of Maia & Cunha Limas findings (2011, 2012). In PE, the results indicated the occurrence of both processing penalties.