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The Production of Clitic Pronouns: A Study on Bilingual and Monolingual Dyslexic Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Clitic production is reported to be challenging for impaired children, suffering from dyslexia or SLI, and for early second language learners too. On the contrary, research has not directly investigated the relation between dyslexia, bilingualism and ...
Maria Vender   +5 more
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In support of long distance agree [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the recent literature the phenomenon of long distance agreement has become the focus of several studies as it seems to violate certain locality conditions which require that agreeing elements in general stand in clause-mate relationships.
Alexiadou, Artemis   +3 more
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Adapting the Core Language Engine to French and Spanish

open access: yes, 1996
We describe how substantial domain-independent language-processing systems for French and Spanish were quickly developed by manually adapting an existing English-language system, the SRI Core Language Engine.
Bouillon, Pierrette   +2 more
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The clitic status of person markers in Sorani Kurdish

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
The ambiguous nature of clitics challenges simple distinctions between morphology and syntax. Clitic properties also feature in theoretical accounts of ergativity. In this paper we analyze the nature of the person markers in Sorani Kurdish.
Hiba Gharib, Clifton Pye
doaj   +1 more source

Information structure in linguistic theory and in speech production : validation of a cross-linguistic data set [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The aim of this paper is to validate a dataset collected by means of production experiments which are part of the Questionnaire on Information Structure.
Hellmuth, Sam, Skopeteas, Stavros
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The gradual acquisition of clitic “se” in Spanish L2

open access: yesTopics in Linguistics, 2016
In this study, we analyse the nature of clitic “se” and low applicatives in Spanish L2 through the study of the non-native acquisition of this clitic by L1 English adult learners.
Escobar Linda, Teomiro Ismael
doaj   +1 more source

DIALECT VARIATION AS A WINDOW INTO LANGUAGE CHANGE – A SYNTACTIC EXAMPLE FROM SASAK (LOMBOK) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Structural contrasts in language are often accompanied by corresponding morphological contrasts. When morphological contrasts are simplified or morphology is reanalyzed, what is the effect on syntactic structure?
Ahmadi, Nur, Garmager, Eli Asikin
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Ancient Greek and the category of verbal periphrasis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper discusses which constructions in Ancient Greek consisting of a finite verb and a participle belong to the category of „verbal periphrasis‟.
Bentein, Klaas
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Clitic-doubling and (non-)configurationality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this paper we investigate Greek, an optional clitic doubling language not subject to Kaynes generalization (Jaeggli 1982), and we argue that in this language, doubled DPs are in A-positions. We propose that Greek clitics are formal features that move,
Alexiadou, Artemis   +1 more
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