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Acaba de ser publicado um novo artigo de Joana Teixeira, Alexandra Fiéis, e Ana Madeira, investigadoras do grupo LiFE do NOVA CLUNL.

Intitulado “Are non-native speakers sensitive to microvariation in anaphora resolution? The case of Italian and Spanish learners of L2 European Portuguese”, este artigo, publicado na revista Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism da John Benjamins Publishing Company, reporta o estudo desenvolvido pelas investigadoras quanto à resolução de anáforas em português europeu por falantes nativos de italiano e espanhol.

Resumo: This study investigates anaphora resolution in L2 European Portuguese by Italian and Spanish native speakers to examine whether learners are sensitive to microvariation among these null subject Romance languages. Participants were 25 adult L1 EP speakers, 69 L1 Italian, and 42 L1 Spanish adult learners of EP at three levels: upper–intermediate, advanced, and near-native. They completed an untimed and a speeded multiple-choice task crossing the variables animacy of the matrix object and type of embedded subject. Results indicate that sensitivity to microvariation develops as L2 proficiency increases. However, learners’ performance remains permanently unstable in the areas where the L1 and the L2 differ, which is only visible in the speeded task. Our findings challenge the idea that the L1 plays a minor role in anaphora resolution and have implications for the Interface Hypothesis.

O artigo está disponível no seguinte endereço: https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23041.tei

• Teixeira, Joana; Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, Ana (2024). Are non-native speakers sensitive to microvariation in anaphora resolution? The case of Italian and Spanish learners of L2 European Portuguese. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism [online first]. ISSN 1879-9264; E-ISSN 1879-9272. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23041.tei