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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 2565-2578, August 2026.ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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A Syntactic Analysis of the Subject Clitic "a" in the Friulian Variety of Campone
Isogloss, 2015 This article presents a syntactic analysis of the third subject clitic a in Camponese, a heretofore unstudied Friulian variety. Following Poletto's (2000) map of subject clitics, we argue that it bears [+third person] features, and is, in fact, the spell-
Jan Casalicchio, Vania Masutti
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Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThis interdisciplinary study investigates the universal archetypal principle of cyclicity, which manifests synchronously in historically and geographically unrelated systems.
Assiya R. Nurdubaeva
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 513-546, July 2026.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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The reorganization of the direct and indirect objects in Romanian language [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2020 The present study, continuing some previous research, highlighted the semantic-syntactic characteristics of the two syntactic positions. Based on the hierarchy of these arguments (transitivity and dative rection), it was found,
Ștefan GĂITĂNARU
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Object Person Marking in two under-represented Spanish dialects of Mexico
Isogloss, 2023 This paper is about a clitic-like form lo that appears in two under-studied dialects of Mexico in the context of transitive clauses. The distribution of this clitic-like form in these dialects is at odds with Standard Mexican Spanish which does not ...
Renato García González +1 more
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Cross‐Cultural Variation in the Noun Bias in Early Vocabulary Development: A Systematic Review
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2026.Abstract Children's early vocabularies have been observed to be predominated by nouns, particularly concrete and animate nouns. This phenomenon, known as the “noun bias,” is argued to reflect a universal conceptual advantage for concrete objects in early word learning, because such referents are perceived as bounded, individualized concepts that are ...
Yiqun Zhang, Subin Kim, Marisa Casillas
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 391-424, June 2026.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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Balkan Romance and Southern Italo-Romance: Differential Object Marking and Its Variation
LanguagesThe main goal of this article is to examine in detail an area of the grammar where standard Romanian, a Balkan Sprachbund language of the Romance phylum, and the Romance dialects of Southern Italy (here we used the dialect of Ragusa, in South-East Sicily)
Monica Alexandrina Irimia +1 more
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