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Student Evaluations 2010-2011, Ewelina Barski
Student Evaluations 2010-2011, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
Student evaluations of "Intermediate Spanish".
The Opc: An Experimental Approach, Ewelina Barski
The Opc: An Experimental Approach, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
A variety of studies have documented the acquisition of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti 1984) in second language speakers (Kanno 1997, Pérez-Leroux & Glass 1999, Rothman & Iverson 2007). This study is an experimental approach to the Overt Pronoun Constraint in native Spanish speakers. Much has been said about this constraint but very few data have been collected to corroborate the asymmetry between referential NPs and quantified antecedents. According to the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti, 1984) unlike the null pronoun, the overt pronoun can never refer back to a quantified expression (1) or a WH-word (2): The overt …