In a context of contact between dialects, it will not be strictly necessary, at first, the acquisition of the other variety for communication to be successful; even so, Kupisch et al. (2023) report that, in their Accent Rating Task, European Portuguese (EP) evaluators of audio snippets of Brazilian immigrants who arrived in Portugal at adult age were less sure of these immigrants’ origins than they were in thei...
Brazilian Portuguese prioritizes pre-verbal placement (proclisis) of its clitic pronouns. However, post-verbal placement (enclisis) has not been completely excluded from this variety, being acquired by means of schooling. This study aimed at evaluating the acceptability of both these possible clitic placements in sentences with and without proclisis triggers – elements that, according to the normative tradition...
Brazilian Portuguese, regarding its second person singular pronouns, is seen by some authors as a dyadic system: the pronoun "você" is the informal pronoun, while "o senhor" is used in situations that require more formality. Although the canonical informal pronoun “tu” still occurs, it is considered that “tu” and “você” are not in complementary distribution, their choice being mostly the result of diatopic vari...
A Hipótese de Reconfiguração de Traços (HRT) sugere que as dificuldades na aquisição de uma língua segunda (L2) ocorrem quando os aprendentes têm de reconfigurar os traços existentes na sua língua materna para apresentarem a configuração que a L2 possui. Este estudo objetivou testá-la relativamente à aquisição dos padrões de colocação dos clíticos do português europeu (PE) L2 e à aceitabilidade de respostas ver...
The Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH) suggests that the difficulties in second language (L2) acquisition happen when the learners have to reassemble the features present in their native language in order to present the L2’s configuration. This study aimed to test the FRH regarding the acquisition of clitics pattern in European Portuguese (EP) L2 and the acceptability of verbal responses, following Martins (19...
A Hipótese de Reconfiguração de Traços (HRT) (Lardiere, 2009) sugere que as dificuldades na aquisição da L2 ocorrem quando os aprendentes têm de reconfigurar os traços existentes na sua L1 de modo que passem a apresentar a configuração que a L2 possui, após a transferência inicial dos traços da L1 para a L2 (por mapeamento direto das formas das duas línguas). Para os padrões de colocação de clíticos em línguas ...