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April 1, 2024ProbusOpen Access

An experimental study on the loss of VS order in monolingual and bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese

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EREsther RinkeCFCristina FloresPOPriscila Oliveira

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Overview

Experimental study demonstrates loss of verb-subject word order in Brazilian Portuguese speakers, suggesting bilingual heritage speakers accelerate ongoing diachronic syntactic change.

Key Points

  • Brazilian Portuguese speakers reject vs order across transitive and unergative verbs, but they consistently preserve inverted structures in unaccusative constructions.
  • Across two speaker groups, participants accepted subject inversion with narrow focus, but heritage speakers categorically rejected postverbal definite subjects.
  • Acceptability judgment tasks evaluated the effects of verb type and pragmatic context, contrasting monolingually-raised individuals with bilingual heritage speakers.
  • Highlights that bilingual heritage speakers may accelerate ongoing diachronic change, progressively eliminating residual postverbal focus positions in the language.

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Rinke et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e7103bb6db643587689da5https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2024-2006
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