Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We examine pronoun interpretation in an overt subject language (English) by L2 learners from a null subject L1 (Italian), using a task where participants choose potential antecedents for pronouns in bi-clausal sentences which manipulate presence or absence of stress on the pronoun and presence or absence of a pause between clauses. Results show that learners are sensitive to the overturning effect of stress, resulting in a shift away from an antecedent prominent in the discourse, but that native speakers are not. Sensitivity for the learners may arise from prosodic properties of their null subject L1; lack of sensitivity for the native speakers may suggest that prosody alone is insufficient to influence antecedent choice for speakers from overt subject languages and that richer contextual cues are required.</jats:p>