Sentence processingin andean and peninsular spanish: word order and animacy

• Natalia Yoza ^[1] ; Itziar Laka Mugarza ; Kepa Erdozia Uriarte
  1. [1] Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

     Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

     Leioa, España

     
• Localización: Hitzak sarean: Pello Salabururi esker onez / coord. por Itziar Laka Mugarza, 2020, ISBN 978-84-1319-111-9, págs. 151-168
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We report pioneering experimental evidence for sentence processing in Andean Spanish.

    Studies report that preverbal objects are more frequent in the Andean variety (A. Escobar, 1978;

    Lujan,Minaya and Sankoff, 1981; Muysken, 1984; Cerron-Palomino, 1990; A.M. Escobar, 1990, 2000; Klee, 1996; Zavala 1999; Muntendam, 2013). We compared the comprehension and reading times for SVO and OVS sentences by Andean and Peninsular Spanish speakers. SVO was fastest in both varieties, replicating previous studies on Peninsular Spanish (Basilico et al., 1995; Casado et al., 2005 and Del Rio et al., 2012) and providing novel evidence that, despite the relatively higher frequency of preverbal objects, canonical word order in Andean Spanish is also SVO. We also considered the impact of object animacy in sentence processing: in both Andean and Peninsular varieties, object animacy results in a general slowdown and poorer comprehension, replicating previous findings. We provide the first online evidence involving Andean Spanish, and show that, despite their higher frequency, preverbal objects are processed with difficulty and SVO is canonical also in this variet