2025/01/01 by Isabel Falé, Paula Luegi, Falé, Isabel +4
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
paper · doi:10.17605/osf.io/ph4ag
The experiment aims to test three types of implicit and explicit discourse relations (DRs): The cause reading of de facto 'indeed' (continuous), the confirmation reading of e de facto 'indeed' (discontinuous due to a perspective shift; and involving positive polarity), and the contrastive reading of na verdade 'in fact' (discontinuous due to a perspective shift and to the negative polarity). The results of the previous experiment show that, in European Portuguese (EP), reading times are slower when (i) the connective is implicit, (ii) the DR is confirmation-discontinuous, (iii) the connective is implicit in confirmation-discontinuous relations, compared with implicit cause-continuous DRs (Falé et al., 2024). Based on these results, we aim to test if implicitness has similar effects in different types of discontinuous relations or if, instead, a gradual distinction may be detected when contrasting, for instance, confirmation-discontinuous and contrastive-discontinuous DRs since, in the last case, there is also negative polarity. Moreover, the present study builds on the previous one by contrasting different connectives: (e) de facto ‘(and) indeed’ – used for cause and confirmation – with na verdade ‘in fact’ – used for contrastive relations. We will compare continuous and discontinuous relations involving the same connective (‘(and) indeed’) and different connectives (‘(and) indeed’ vs. ‘in fact’), aiming to tease apart the possible effects of the lexical properties related to each connective.