The negative evidence hypothesis: the acquisition of the double-object construction by Brazilian-Portuguese English bilinguals

Cândido Oliveira; Alberto Penzin

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n3p331

Autores

Cândido Oliveira Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEEFT-MG) Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7578-6288
Alberto Penzin Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5848-2215

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n3p331

Resumo

Este estudo pretende acrescentar ao corpo de evidências as estruturas linguísticas que parecem ser mais desafiadoras na aquisição de L2 do que na aquisição de L1 (DeKeyser, 2005; Ellis, 2008; Inagaki, 2001; Slabakova, 2014; Sorace, 2011). A hipótese de evidência negativa (NEH) (Oliveira, 2016) prevê que os bilíngues são menos sensíveis que os falantes nativos às violações resultantes da generalização excessiva de uma regra específica de L2. Testamos essa hipótese analisando o comportamento de bilíngues português-inglês do Brasil com perfis diferentes em relação à construção de objetos duplos em inglês com verbos não licenciados em duas tarefas de julgamento de aceitabilidade. Os resultados corroboram o NEH ao transmitir que os bilíngues ganham sensibilidade à medida que se tornam mais proficientes; no entanto, os dados sugerem que nem mesmo quando imersos no L2, eles se tornam tão sensíveis quanto os falantes nativos.

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