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Early exposure and input type in the production of Spanish accusative clitics by Chinese-Spanish bilinguals

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
The current study examines the production of object clitic pronouns among Chinese/Spanish bilinguals via an elicited narrative task. A total of 11 simultaneous bilinguals, 10 sequential bilinguals from Peru and 21 Chinese-speaking L2 learners from China ...
Alejandro Cuza, Jian Jiao
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Null objects and accusative clitics in Romanian

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009
Starting from the identification of the obligatory contexts in which the Accusative clitic occurs in Romanian we offer a unifying analysis of its role across all the identified contexts.
Martine Coene, Larisa Avram
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A Sentence Repetition Task for Catalan-Speaking Typically-Developing Children and Children with Specific Language Impairment [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
It is common to find that so-called minority languages enjoy fewer (if any) diagnostic tools than the so-called majority languages. This has repercussions for the detection and proper assessment of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) brought
Anna Gavarró
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Brazilian Venetan is going leísta

open access: yesIsogloss, 2023
This paper discusses language variation in heritage languages, focussing on a peculiar use of the dative clitic ghe in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety. Corpus data and grammaticality judgments by native speakers showed that,
Alberto Frasson
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Persons and Pronouns: Exploring Clitics in Judeo-Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 2022
Optional versus obligatory clitic doubling and the person-case constraint (PCC) repair constitute two puzzles researchers haven’t fully addressed.
Naomi Kurtz
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Decomposing Spanish dative clitics

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021
In Spanish, dative clitics have standardly been analyzed differently from accusative ones. The apparent different constraints that regulate each of these clitic doubling constructions have been at the base of the differing analyses.
Adolfo Ausin   +1 more
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Correlations between Case and the D-system and the interpretability of Case

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021
A correlation between articles and Case has long been noted based on diachronic evidence. Beyond articles, evidence supports that this correlation extends further to clitics and the determiner system (the D-system) at large. The D-system in turn supports
Txuss Martin   +2 more
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Feature Matching Does Not Equal Convergence: Acquisition of L2 French Accusative Pronouns by L1 Spanish Speakers

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Our study aims to determine whether formal similarity between two languages (operationalized via the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis) allows adult L2 learners of French (Spanish native speakers; NSs) to straightforwardly acquire third-person singular ...
Elena Shimanskaya, Tania Leal
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Strong pronouns and clitic pronouns in brazilian portuguese and french

open access: yesRevista Linguística, 2022
Clitic pronouns generally correspond to verbal arguments and depend on a verbal base to support them, which is one of the reasons why they cannot occur as isolated elements in a sentence, contrary to what can be verified for strong pronouns and DPs and ...
Luciano de Oliveira
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Typology of Copula Constructions in Gorani Texts and the Ergative System's Reflection in Them [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2023
In this study, the copula constructions in Gorani texts are investigated, as well as how the ergative system is reflected in them. The Divan of Mawlavi (also known as Kurdish Mawlavi) is one of the most authoritative Gorani manuscripts used in this study.
Saeed Karami   +2 more
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