Título: | PARALINGUISTIC GESTURE AS PRAGMATIC REINFORCEMENT IN PRONOUN ACQUISITION | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
CAMILA VASCONCELOS SAMPAIO |
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Colaborador(es): |
CILENE APARECIDA NUNES RODRIGUES - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 24/ABR/2023 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=62354&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=62354&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.62354 | ||||||||||||
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Researches in different languages show that children in acquisition have difficulties in
establishing coreference with deictic pronouns, reflecting a possible delay in the
acquisition of pragmatic principles that constraint pronominal reference (Chien and
Wexler, 1990, 2009; Grolla, 2006). Recent research suggests that co-speech gestures can
function as pragmatic reinforcement, reinforcing implicit aspects of meaning (Schlenker,
2018). In the present research, it is investigated whether, in the acquisition of Brazilian
Portuguese, these gestures alleviate difficulties of pronominal coreference, violation of
Principle B. Two experimental studies, truth value judgment tasks, were carried out with
children (target group – 10 participants) and adults (control group – 10 participants). In
both experiments, the experimental stimuli were composed of coordinated sentences,
presented orally, with the target pronoun (null or full) in the second clause object position
and two possible antecedents: one in the second clause subject position (local antecedent)
and the other in the first clause object position (non-local antecedent). In the first
experiment, there was no co-speech gesture, both pronouns and antecedents were
presented orally only. In the second experiment, co-speech gestures (manual pointing for
spatial location of the referent (spatial-loci) were added to pronouns and possible
antecedents were accompanie. Obtained results indicate that: (a) in structural contexts
involving null pronouns, there is no significant difference between target and control
groups, both reject local coreference – without violating Principle B; (b) in structural
contexts involving full pronouns, there was a significant difference between the target
and control groups, with greater acceptance of local coreference in the target group -
violation of Principle B. However, in the second experiment, there was no significant
difference between the two groups. We conclude, therefore, that, during acquisition, the
co-speech gestures of spatial-loci is computed in pronominal coreference, neutralizing
readings with coreference with local antecedents.
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