{"id":4444,"date":"2015-02-05T00:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2015-02-05T00:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:31:30","slug":"object-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=4444","title":{"rendered":"Object pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wpid-20150204_203745.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20150204_203745.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wpid-20150204_203745.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indirect object pronouns are such a challenge for me. Because that last sentence would be, &#8220;Indirect objects me are such a challenge&#8221; in Spanish. The indirect object appears before the verb and direct object. My brain (specifically my syntactic parser) is not prepared to recognize an indirect object before a verb and direct object. So in my listening comprehension exercises I am cofusing indirect object pronouns as other parts of speech and then I end up confused. Object pronouns often look like articles. As an example, &#8220;La estoy mirando&#8221;. Since la is a feminine article that often appears at the beginning of a sentence, I immediately interpret it wrongly. The subsequent verb is the notification that it cannot be an article, but with that information I have to then make a decision regarding the nature of <em>la<\/em>. Thus I need to backtrack mentally which seems inefficient. But given the ambiguity of <em>la <\/em>there is no choice. That doesn&#8217;t happen in English (well, it&#8217;s rather rare as found in garden path sentences). If I see <em>the<\/em> in a sentence, then my brain knows the nature of the next word before getting to that word (it can only be a noun). Because my brain can anticipate future words in a sentence, it can parse them quicker. But I don&#8217;t see how that can be the case in Spanish in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indirect object pronouns are such a challenge for me. Because that last sentence would be, &#8220;Indirect objects me are such a challenge&#8221; in Spanish. The indirect object appears before the verb and direct object. My brain (specifically my syntactic parser) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=4444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spanish","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}