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Interlanguage
Basic variety
Discourse universals
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A narrative’s central feature is a temporal sequence of semantically related events, often intertwined with utterances conveying background information. We refer to temporality as the establishment of temporal reference that allows locating events in a time sequence. Learners express this kind of reference through different pragmatic, lexical, and morphological means. As for a second language, the acquisition of the expression of temporality often develops in three stages, named after these resources. We carried out a meaning-oriented analysis of samples of the so-called “basic variety” of Brazilian-Portuguese interlanguage from narratives based on a children’s book, elicited from six beginners, speakers of four different native languages (Italian, Dutch, German, and Spanish). We identified one learner’s interlanguage as in the pragmatic stage and the others’ as in the lexical stage. As expected, Spanish speakers’ samples showed different characteristics from the other learners’. This was so, particularly regarding the use of Spanish temporal morphemes with Portuguese verb roots and the absence of base-form verbs predicted for this stage. In sum, we did not find any regular use of past morphemes apart from verb forms widespread in the target language and probably acquired by rote. Still, we found all the narratives coherent and concluded that the proximity between a learner’s mother tongue and their target language could change the characteristics of these universal stages.
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