Open AccessVariation under a psycholinguistic perspective: number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese and its impact for the schooling
Author(s) -
Ana Paula da Silva Passos Jakubów,
Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ilha do desterro
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.223
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2175-8026
pISSN - 0101-4846
DOI - 10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n3p101
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , portuguese , perspective (graphical) , production (economics) , socioeconomic status , brazilian portuguese , agreement , psychology , variety (cybernetics) , linguistics , sociology , demography , mathematics , statistics , economics , physics , philosophy , population , geometry , astrophysics , macroeconomics
This paper discusses the impact of schooling in the production of number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by 6th graders in Rio de Janeiro. Number agreement in BP can vary between: (a) redundant, the standard variety or (b) non-redundant, non-standard forms. Such variation is influenced by speakers’ socioeconomic status (SES) and educational level (Naro, 1981; Scherre & Naro, 1998 among many others). Results of an elicited production experiment carried out with 6th graders suggest influence of SES/ type of school and academic performance in language production; the effects of schooling and metalinguistic awareness are discussed. An account of language production is presented by conciliating L1 and L2 models of speech production, considering the possibility of the coexistence of varieties in a single speaker to be akin to bilingualism.