Brazilian Portuguese-English bilingualism does not afect metalinguistic awareness of L1 constraints in two argument structure constructions

Autores

  • Ricardo Augusto de Souza Federal University of Minas Gerais
  • Jesiel Soares-Silva Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Gustavo Garcia Silva Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p17

Resumo

In the present study we investigated a corollary of the multicompetence hypothesis as a description of language representation in bilingualism. According to this hypothesis, bilingualism entails a state of linguistic knowledge that does not correspond either to L1 or L2 norms. Previous studies examining online language processing of sentences in Portuguese that simulated argument structures constructions of English have shown a departure from the restrictions of the L1 grammar (Portuguese). The purpose of this study was to explore whether such departure from the L1 would be observed in a psycholinguistic task that taps bilinguals’ intentional attention focus on the form of linguistic expressions in their L1, therefore depicting L1 metalinguistic awareness. The results reveal that the bilingualism effects detected during real time sentence processing do not extend to metalinguistic awareness, therefore suggesting that such effects are evanescent, and most likely implicit in nature.

Biografia do Autor

Ricardo Augusto de Souza, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Ricardo Augusto de Souza is Adjunct Professor of English in the Faculty of Letters at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. His main research interests are bilingual sentence processing, interlanguage syntax, and the role of modern information and communication technologies in the promotion of multilingual experiences.

Jesiel Soares-Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doctoral student in theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Gustavo Garcia Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Bachelor in English from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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2016-01-26

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v. 69 n. 1 (2016)

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