An Investigation On The Aquisition Of The Resultative Construction Formation Rules By High-Proficient Brazilian Portuguese-English Bilinguals
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2014.1.16669Keywords:
Second language acquisition, Acceptability judgment, Magnitude estimation, Resultative construction.Abstract
This paper presents the results of an acceptability judgment task. The task was carried out using a magnitude estimation paradigm and aimed at investigating the behavior of highly proficient Brazilian Portuguese-English bilinguals upon reading grammatical and ungrammatical sentences in English. These sentences, in turn, instantiated a resultative construction. The results suggest that the bilinguals and the English monolinguals made similar judgments for the acceptability of the grammatical resultative construction. However, the bilinguals showed higher acceptance of ungrammatical resultative construction than the monolinguals. The present study corroborates the understanding that the level of learnability of construction may be associated with the relation between the L1 and L2 involved. Furthermore, the results suggest that this relation is not sufficient to make bilingual as sensitive to rules as native speakers.Downloads
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