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Scherre, Maria Mata Pereira – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Examines the role of phrase-level parallelism on noun phrase number agreement and demonstrates Puerto Rican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese exhibit more similarities than differences with regard to this constraint. Claims the phrase-level parallelism effect on noun phrase number agreement is embedded in a universal principle of linguistic use:…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Universals, Language Variation