A. C. Bleotu

When Contrast Overrides Animacy: Overt Personal Pronouns as Subjects in Anaphoric Contexts in Adult Romanian

The current study investigates how adult Romanian speakers choose between overt and null pronoun subjects in inter-sentential anaphoric contexts, and how their choices are shaped by two interacting factors: contrast and animacy. Our results from two forced choice tasks conducted on adult native speakers of Romanian sho...