The role of prosody in overt pronoun resolution in a null subject language and in a non-null subject language: A production study

• Published in: Glossa (London) Vol. 4; no. 1; p. 1
• Main Authors: Gargiulo, Chiara, Tronnier, Mechtild, Bernardini, Petra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Open Library of Humanities 06.12.2019
• Subjects: Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics; General Language Studies and Linguistics; Humaniora och konst; Humanities; Humanities and the Arts; Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik; Languages and Literature; Null Subject Parameter; production study; pronominal anaphora resolution; prosody; Research Article; Språk och litteratur; prosody; pronominal anaphora resolution; Null Subject Parameter; production study

In this study, we investigate how prosodic cues are used when an overt pronoun is associated with either a subject or an object antecedent in Italian and in Swedish. To address this question, 28 Italian speakers and 28 Swedish speakers completed a production task, by reading out loud globally-ambigu...