Experimental evidence for 2SG direct object pronoun preferences in Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n2a17608Keywords:
direct objects, contrast, Brazilian Portuguese, variationAbstract
We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to show that dialectal subject pronoun preference (tu/você) and contrast both play a significant role in conditioning this choice. Furthermore, we find that contrast, despite its traditional treatment as binary, shows gradient effects on pronoun choice- while te is the preferred DO pronoun overall, você is the variant preferred in contrastive contexts, especially in cases of double contrast.
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Original in English.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n2a17608.
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