Online Sentence Processing During Reading of Temporally Ambiguous Gapping Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese / Processamento online na leitura de sentenças elípticas gapping com ambiguidade temporária no Português Brasileiro

Andressa Christine Oliveira da Silva, Aline Alves Fonseca

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Abstract: This article aims to explore whether the online sentence processing of gapping sentences, with a temporary ambiguous DP at the second conjunct, such as “Beatriz baked a pizza and Carla a lemon cake for snack”, is more costing in terms of time course in comparison to other two coordinated sentences, coordinate with conjoined object such as “Beatriz baked a pizza and a lemon cake for snack in the afternoon”, and coordinate with conjoined clauses without ellipsis, such as “Beatriz baked a pizza and Carla made a lemon juice”. A Self-Paced Reading task in moving-window fashion was carried out with native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. The results seem to indicate that temporary ambiguous DP and the resolution of the ellipsis site were more costly to process int comparison to the other two coordinated sentences.

Keywords: Sentence Processing; Ellipsis; Gapping; Brazilian Portuguese.

Resumo: Este artigo tem como objetivo explorar se o processamento online de sentenças elípticas gapping, com ambiguidade temporária do DP que inicia a segunda oração, como em “A Beatriz assou a pizza e a Carla o bolo de limão pro lanche”, é mais custoso em comparação com outros dois tipos de sentenças coordenadas, estrutura com coordenação de objetos como em “A Beatriz assou a pizza e o bolo de limão pro lanche da tarde”, e estrutura com sentenças coordenadas sem elipse, como em “A Beatriz assou a pizza e a Carla preparou um suco de limão”. Aplicou-se uma tarefa de Leitura Automonitorada, com design moving-window a falantes do Português Brasileiro. Os resultados indicam que a ambiguidade temporária do DP e a resolução da elipse do verbo foram mais custosas no processamento em comparação com as outras duas sentenças coordenadas.

Palavras-chave: Processamento de Sentenças; Elipse; Gapping; Português Brasileiro.


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Sentence Processing; Ellipsis; Gapping; Brazilian Portuguese

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.26.2.67-87

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