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Experimental evidence for the interpretation of definite plural articles as markers of genericity – How Italian can help
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 16 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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In the Romance languages, definite plural articles (e.g., le rane ‘the frogs’) are generally ambiguous between a generic and a specific interpretation, and speakers must reconstruct the intended interpretation through the linguistic or extra-linguistic context. Following the “polar bear” paradigm implemented in Czypionka & Kupisch (2019)’s investigation on German, the goal of the present study is to check the suitability of their test on article semantics, by establishing to what extent native speakers of Italian interpret ambiguous definite plural DPs as generic or specific in the presence of a nonlinguistic picture context. We present judgment and reaction time data monitoring the preferred reading of sentences introduced by different kinds of noun phrases (e.g., Le rane/Queste rane/Le rane di solito sono verdi/gialle ‘The/These/Usually frogs are green/yellow’), while looking at pictures showing prototypical or non-prototypical properties (e.g., green vs. yellow frogs). Our results show that both possible interpretations of definite plural articles are routinely considered in Italian, despite the presence of a picture with specific referents, validating the “polar bear” paradigm as a suitable test of article semantics.
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Ambiguity; Definiteness; Determiners; Germanic languages; Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Romance languages
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URL: https://www.glossa-journal.org/jms/article/view/1165
https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1165
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Stable and vulnerable domains in Germanic heritage languages
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In: Oslo Studies in Language ; 11 (2021), 2. - S. 503-526. - University of Oslo. - eISSN 1890-9639 (2021)
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Experimental evidence for the interpretation of definite plural articles as markers of genericity : How Italian can help
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In: Glossa : a journal of general linguistics ; 6 (2021), 1. - 16. - Ubiquity Press. - eISSN 2397-1835 (2021)
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Foreign Accent in Pre- and Primary School Heritage Bilinguals
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In: Languages ; 6 (2021), 2. - 96. - MDPI Publishing. - eISSN 2226-471X (2021)
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Italian-German bilinguals : The effects of heritage language use on accent in early-acquired languages
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In: International Journal of Bilingualism ; 24 (2020), 2. - S. 289-304. - Sage Publications. - ISSN 1367-0069. - eISSN 1756-6878 (2020)
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Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition : Evidence From Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the United Kingdom
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In: Frontiers in Education ; 5 (2020). - 20. - Frontiers Media. - eISSN 2504-284X (2020)
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Formal Linguistics and Language Education : Bridging the Gap
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In: Formal Linguistics and Language Education : New Empirical Perspectives / Trotzke, Andreas; Kupisch, Tanja (Hrsg.). - Cham : Springer, 2020. - (Educational Linguistics ; 43). - S. 1-8. - ISBN 978-3-030-39256-7 (2020)
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Towards modelling heritage speakers' sound systems
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In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition ; 23 (2020), 1. - S. 29-30. - Cambridge University Press (CUP). - ISSN 1366-7289. - eISSN 1469-1841 (2020)
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Terminology Matters On Theoretical Grounds Too! : Coherent Grammars Cannot Be Incomplete
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In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition ; 41 (2019), 2. - S. 257-264. - ISSN 0272-2631. - eISSN 1470-1545 (2019)
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