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ArticleJournal of psycholinguistic research2016

The Overt Pronoun Constraint Across Three Dialects of Spanish.

Carlos Gelormini-Lezama, David Huepe, Eduar Herrera, Margherita Melloni, Facundo Manes, Adolfo M García, Agustín Ibáñez

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Carlos Gelormini-LezamaDepartamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de San Andrés, Vito Dumas 284, B1644BID, Buenos Aires, Argentina. carlosgelormini@yahoo.com.
David HuepeLaboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LaNCyS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Eduar HerreraUniversidad Icesi, Departamento de Estudios Psicológicos, Cali, Colombia.
Margherita MelloniLaboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LaNCyS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Facundo ManesLaboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LaNCyS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Adolfo M GarcíaLaboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LaNCyS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Agustín IbáñezLaboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LaNCyS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.

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Abstract

The overt pronoun constraint (OPC) states that, in null subject languages, overt pronoun subjects of embedded clauses cannot be bound by wh- or quantifier antecedents. Through the administration of two written questionnaires, we examined the OPC in 246 monolingual native speakers of three dialects of Spanish, spoken in Barranquilla (Colombia), Santiago (Chile), and Buenos Aires (Argentina). We tested separately the predictions that overt pronouns cannot be bound by wh- antecedents (Experiment 1) and that they cannot be bound by quantifier antecedents (Experiment 2). We found that the OPC was not operative in any of these dialects. In Experiment 1, the percentage of bound answers was approximately the same as the percentage of anaphoric answers. In Experiment 2, the percentage of bound answers was significantly higher than the percentage of anaphoric answers. Implications both for theories of pronoun resolution in null subject languages and for theories of first and second language acquisition are discussed.

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LanguageLinguisticsAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung AdultNull subject languagesOvert pronoun constraintPronoun resolutionSpanish

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