Do Spanish causal connectives vary in subjectivity? What crowdsourcing data reveal about native speakers’ preferences

Abstract Language users have preferences for the connectives they choose to express causal relations. These choices may depend on subjectivity involved in relation. Dutch illustrate this situation clearly: want (‘since/for’) is preferred typically expressing subjective relations and omdat (‘because’) objective ones. While various corpus-based studies revealed a similar pattern other languages, little attention has been paid Spanish from perspective. Recent analyzed porque (‘because’), ya que (‘since’) puesto (‘given that’) using two different methods of analysis. Surprisingly, findings did not coincide with previous literature connectives, semantic profile such terms remained unclear. The current study again aims investigate whether these show systematic variation subjectivity, crowdsourcing experimentation. Results that native speakers prefer over However, no statistically significant difference was observed between . This offers better understanding subjectivity. Furthermore, it contributes assessment use as useful reliable method elucidate meaning connectives.