The Videos Sample Clauses

The Videos. The present research is based on a number of videos containing spontaneous or semi-spontaneous speech. For EW, I considered an interview given in 2018 to a programme of the national broadcast company Rai1, lasting 14‟55 (Note 5). In the interview, XX seems to answer spontaneously to the questions and starts a free dialogue with the interviewer (we may assume that she just had a general knowledge of the topics that would be touched upon in the interview). In the case of EK, on the other hand, I analysed seven shorter videos: three interviews and four video-recipes. The total duration of his videos is 53‟15 (Note 6). For each video, I transcribed all sentences in which there was at least one item requiring agreement. I did not consider the use of articles, following Xxxxxxx (2012) and others that consider them an instance of gender assignment, rather than gender agreement. This interpretation is confirmed by the fact that the two speakers never have problems with the selection of the article, which always occurs in the expected form (with only three exceptions in total). All the other modifiers requiring agreement were tagged with respect to their word category and to the position they occupy in the clause: whether they are internal or external to the DP, and in the last case whether they are used as nominal predicates in a copular sentence or in compound verb forms. Finally, some fixed expressions „noun + adjective‟ (e.g. panna montata „whipped cream‟) were not considered, because the speakers are likely to have them acquired as fixed forms. And indeed, they always occur target-like in the corpus.