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Processing subject focus across two Spanish varieties
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Hoot, Bradley Leal, Tania |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Abstract | Linguists have keenly studied the realization of focus – the part of the sentence introducing new information – because it involves the interaction of different linguistic modules. Syntacticians have argued that Spanish uses word order for information-structural purposes, marking focused constituents via rightmost movement. However, recent studies have challenged this claim. To contribute sentence-processing evidence, we conducted a self-paced reading task and a judgment task with Mexican and Catalonian Spanish speakers. We found that movement to final position can signal focus in Spanish, in contrast to the aforementioned work. We contextualize our results within the literature, identifying three basic facts that theories of Spanish focus and theories of language processing should explain, and advance a fourth: that mismatches in information-structural expectations can induce processing delays. Finally, we propose that some differences in the existing experimental results may stem from methodological differences. |
| Related Links | http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/prbs.ahead-of-print/probus-2019-0004/probus-2019-0004.xml |
| ISSN | 09214771 |
| e-ISSN | 16134079 |
| DOI | 10.1515/probus-2019-0004 |
| Journal | Probus |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 32 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2020-01-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Probus Language Studies Information Structure Processing Spanish Focus Self-paced Reading Journal: Probus, Issue- 2 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Linguistics and Language |
