Expletive Pronoun Deletion Elicitation

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dc.contributor.authorWeir, Jesse
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-20T06:06:17Z
dc.date.available2020-11-20T06:06:17Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-19
dc.description.abstractUnder the current minimalist program, most spoken English sentences are required to have an overt subject by virtue of the strong EPP feature at T. In informal spoken English however, it is possible to omit an expletive or referential pronoun before the raising verb seems. In sentences with a referential pronoun subject, participants will take notice of referential pronoun constructions and assign stress to the subject pronoun, even if it is absent in what they are reading aloud (Weir, 2019). When listening to degraded audio, interspeaker phonological variation plays a significant role in determining the likelihood of reproducing a sentence with the subject pronoun absent. Previous research on the topic of subject pronoun deletion in spoken English has been approached from both a pragmatic approach (Mack et al. 2012) and a phonological approach. The results of the present study suggest a combination of these two approaches which explains the interspeaker variation in the audio recreation data of the present study. This paper also argues that the phonetic patterns that appeared in Weir (2019) are the result of participants adjusting based on the syntactic differences in sentences based on the referentiality of the pronoun subject.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38393
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/112762
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Culturesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectsyntaxen_US
dc.subjectphonologyen_US
dc.subjectpronoun deletionen_US
dc.titleExpletive Pronoun Deletion Elicitationen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
dc.typeworking paperen_US
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