Erratum to: The Overt Pronoun Constraint Across Three Dialects of Spanish

The overt pronoun constraint (OPC) states that, in null subject languages, overt pronoun subjects of embedded clauses cannot be bound by wh- or quantifier antecedents. Through the administration of two written questionnaires, we examined the OPC in 246 monolingual native speakers of three dialects o...

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Autores:
Herrera Murcia, Eduar
García, Adolfo Martín
Manes, Facundo Francisco
Melloni, Margherita
Huepe, David
Gelormini Lezama, Carlos
Ibáñez, Agustin
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Universidad ICESI
Repositorio:
Repositorio ICESI
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/81751
Acceso en línea:
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84973098637&doi=10.1007%2fs10936-016-9435-1&partnerID=40&md5=11f955e3a8e8c5c6478f7bcef0c26f6a
http://hdl.handle.net/10906/81751
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-016-9435-1
Palabra clave:
Ciencias sociales
Dialectos del español
Pronombres
Social sciences
Rights
openAccess
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:The overt pronoun constraint (OPC) states that, in null subject languages, overt pronoun subjects of embedded clauses cannot be bound by wh- or quantifier antecedents. Through the administration of two written questionnaires, we examined the OPC in 246 monolingual native speakers of three dialects of Spanish, spoken in Barranquilla (Colombia), Santiago (Chile), and Buenos Aires (Argentina). We tested separately the predictions that overt pronouns cannot be bound by wh- antecedents (Experiment 1) and that they cannot be bound by quantifier antecedents (Experiment 2). We found that the OPC was not operative in any of these dialects. In Experiment 1, the percentage of bound answers was approximately the same as the percentage of anaphoric answers. In Experiment 2, the percentage of bound answers was significantly higher than the percentage of anaphoric answers. Implications both for theories of pronoun resolution in null subject languages and for theories of first and second language acquisition are discussed.