9 de dezembro de 2021
Defesa de Tese – Andressa Christine O. Silva (17/12 – 14 horas – virtual)
| Título da tese | Prosody, semantic parallelism and pragmatic context in the processing of gapping sentences |
| Resumo da tese | This dissertation investigated the processing of ambiguous coordinate sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and in American English (AE), such as: O Pedro levou a Júlia na festa e o Bruno no churrasco da empresa / Peter took Julia to the party and Brian to the company barbecue. In this type of sentence, the proper noun Bruno/Brian can be interpreted as a subject of a new clause (gapping interpretation) or as a conjoined direct object (conjunction reduction interpretation). Experimental evidence from previous researches (CARLSON, 2002, 2005; HOEKS et al., 2002, 2006, 2009; SILVA et al., 2018) reveals a strong preference for conjunction reduction interpretation of coordinate sentences due to structural simplicity bias, which is aligned with the Minimal Attachment Principle (FRAZIER, 1979, 1987). The current research took a Psycholinguistic approach (LEITÃO, 2008) and manipulated prosodic cues, semantic parallelism between nouns in the two conjuncts, and biasing pragmatic contexts in order to find out the role of these features in determining the final interpretation of those ambiguous sentences. The results indicate that gapping interpretation is most preferred in both BP and AE when prosodic, semantic, and pragmatic cues bias subject interpretation of the ambiguous noun in the second conjunct (Bruno/Brian). Therefore, we conclude that linguistic and non-linguistic information is relevant to license a gapping syntactic structure analysis in both BP and AE. |
| Data e horário | Dia 17 de dezembro de 2021, às 14:00 horas, por webconferência (banca online), em língua inglesa. |
COMPOSIÇÃO DA BANCA:
| Nome do(a) Prof.(a) | Título e instituição | Vínculo institucional | Função na banca | |
| 01 | Aline Alves Fonseca | Doutora / UFMG | UFJF | Orientadora |
| 03 | Paula Roberta Gabbai Armelin | Doutora/ USP | UFJF | Membro Titular Interno |
| 04 | Tiago Timponi Torrent | Doutor / UFRJ | UFJF | Membro Titular Interno e Presidente da banca |
| 05 | Kathryn Ann Carlson | DoutorA/ UMass | Morehead State University | Membro Titular Externo |
| 06 | Marcus Antônio Rezende Maia | Doutor / USC | UFRJ | Membro Titular Externo |
| 07 | Maria Cristina Lobo Name | Doutora / PUC-RJ | UFJF | Suplente Interno |
| 08 | Mercedes Marcilese | Doutora / PUC-RJ | UFJF | Suplente Interno |
| 09 | Camila Tavares Leite | Doutora/ UFMG | UFU | Suplente Externo |
| 10 | Ruth Elisabeth Vasconcellos Lopes | Doutora / UNICAMP | UNICAMP | Suplente Externo |