Joana Teixeira
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joana Teixeira plays a role.
2024 Chapter 1. Anaphora resolution in L2 European Portuguese: Animacy effects and the position of the antecedent Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.), pp. 12–33 | Chapter
This study investigates the interpretation of subject pronouns in L1 Italian – L2 European Portuguese, considering animacy effects and the position of the antecedent. Participants were 25 adult EP native speakers, 25 upper-intermediate, 25 advanced, and 19 near-native Italian adult learners of… read more
2024 Are non-native speakers sensitive to microvariation in anaphora resolution? The case of Italian and Spanish learners of L2 European Portuguese Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates anaphora resolution in L2 European Portuguese by Italian and Spanish native speakers to examine whether learners are sensitive to microvariation among these null subject Romance languages. Participants were 25 adult L1 EP speakers, 69 L1 Italian, and 42 L1 Spanish adult… read more
2021 The impact of explicit instruction on different types of linguistic properties: Syntactic vs . syntax-discourse properties ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 172:1, pp. 26–57 | Article
Over the past decades, L2 research has shown that properties involving the syntax-discourse interface are typically more complex to acquire than strictly syntactic properties. To determine whether the complexity of the target property moderates the effectiveness of explicit instruction, this… read more
2021 Chapter 9. Can explicit instruction help L2 learners overcome persistent L1 interference? The case of free inversion in L2 English L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 229–256 | Chapter
The present work investigates whether free inversion is difficult to eliminate from the L2 English grammars of L1 speakers of a null subject Romance language, European Portuguese (EP), and whether L1 interference can be overcome as a result of explicit instruction. The work comprises two… read more
2019 Chapter 13. From a Romance null subject grammar to a non-null subject grammar: The syntax of pronominal subjects in advanced and near-native English Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 255–274 | Chapter
This study investigates the acquisition of pronominal subjects by advanced and near-native speakers of English whose L1s are European Portuguese (EP), a null subject language (NSL), and French, a non-NSL (NNSL). Two experimental tasks were used: a drag-and-drop task and a speeded acceptability… read more