Processing of Bare Nouns in BP: investiganting interfaces between cognitive domains

Abstract

This study investigates bare nouns processing by Brazillian-Portuguese (BrP) native speakers. Unlike other languages, BrP may accept singular and plural bare nouns in preverbal and postverbal positions in different syntactic-semantic domains. Thus, its occurrence could rely on relationships between linguistic domains (syntax-semantics) and between linguistic and nonlinguistic domains (syntax-pragmatics). An experiment was conducted using naming task in order to elicit sentences containing bare nouns in subject position of generic sentences, kind and episodic ones. The results suggest a tendency to optionality in the use of bare nouns by BrP speakers and are discussed based on the Interface Hypothesis (SORACE; FILIACI, 2006). --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n46a1143

Keywords

• Processamento da linguagem. Interfaces. Nominais Nus.