We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to show that dialectal subject pronoun preference (tu/você) and contrast both play a significant role in conditioning this choice. Furthermore, we find that contrast, despite its traditional treatment as binary, shows gradient effects on pronoun choice- while te is the preferred DO pronoun overall, você is the variant preferred in contrastive contexts, especially in cases of double contrast.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------EVIDÊNCIAS EXPERIMENTAIS POR PREFERÊNCIAS PRONOMINAIS DE OBJETOS DIRETOS DE 2SG EM PORTUGUÊS BRASILEIROExaminamos a competição no português brasileiro entre o pronome clítico te e o tônico você para a expressão de objetos diretos de segunda pessoa singular (Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). Apresentamos dados recolhidos de um questionário, e analizados utilizando a regressão logística de efeitos mistos, para mostrar que tanto a preferência do pronome de sujeito (você/tu) quanto o contraste têm um papel importante na escolha do pronome de objeto direto. Também, o contraste, apesar do tratamento tradicional como binário, mostra efeitos gradáveis na escolha de pronome- enquanto o te é preferido em termos globais, você é preferido em contextos contrastivos, especialmente nos casos de duplo contraste.---Original em inglês.
This study uses the social media platform Twitter to analyze geographic variation in the use of voseo throughout the Spanish-speaking world. It forms part of the first-ever voseo census (Morgan et al., 2017a, 2017b), which triangulates multiple sources to calculate the number of voseantes worldwide and to document their morphological and attitudinal preferences. We compiled a corpus of 32 million geocoded tweets, searched within it for ten linguistic variables – the pronoun vos and associated verbal morphology – and estimated usage rates by country. We found widespread voseo in the River Plate basin and Central America, but with important differences in rates of indicative, subjunctive, and imperative forms. We also address methodological questions in the use of big data for dialectological research.
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