The Interaction of Functional Predictors and the Mechanical Predictor Perseveration in a Variationist Analysis of Caribbean Spanish Heritage Speaker Subject Pronoun Expression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7903837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ana De Prada Pérez (0000-0003-4153-9638, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 36 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages5040036 |
| OpenAlex | W3090648392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Spanish has been widely studied across monolingual and bilingual varieties, showing a consistent effect of functional predictors. In recent papers, the role of the mechanical predictor priming, or perseveration, has been the source of debate. Additionally, little is known about the interaction of perseveration and significant functional predictors (e.g., grammatical person). In this paper, we expand on previous research by examining first-person singular (1sg) and third-person singular (3sg) data from sociolinguistic interviews with Spanish–English bilinguals from Florida to explore the possible difference in priming in deictic vs. referential subjects. The results from a mixed-effects variable rule analysis only offered clear evidence of priming in 1sg. We hypothesize that this result could be due to either surprisal (1sg overt pronominal subjects are rarer in the corpus that 3sg overt pronominal subjects) or to 3sg involving reference-tracking and perseveration only being evident in contexts where the subject form does not signal for pragmatic content
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Deixis · Expression (computer science · Linguistics · Object pronoun · Perseveration · Priming (agriculture · Pronoun · Subject (documents · Subject pronoun · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Bilingualism in the Community
Spanish in New YorkLanguage Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity
Syntactic persistence in language production
The persistence of structural priming
Competence Similarities Between Native and Near-Native Speakers
Perseveration of subject expression across regional dialects of Spanish
El castellano del Caribe colombiano en la ciudad de Nueva York
Grammatical complexification in Spanish in New York
Spanish subject personal pronoun use in New York City Puerto Ricans
Frequency rates and constraints on subject personal pronoun expression
Models, forests, and trees of York English
Genre effects on subject expression in Spanish
What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |