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Gender Marking and Clitic Pronoun Resolution in Simultaneous Bilingual Children
Languages, 2022 The acquisition of clitics still remains a highly controversial issue in Greek acquisition literature despite the bulk of studies performed. Object clitics have been shown to be early acquired by monolingual children in terms of production rates, whereas only highly proficient bilingual children achieve target-like performance.
Vasiliki Koukoulioti +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.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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The acquisition of object clitic pronouns in Heritage Romanian
Frontiers in Language SciencesThis paper examines the acquisition of object clitic pronouns in Heritage Romanian (HR) by school-age children in Toronto who are second-generation speakers of Romanian—i.e., children of first-generation immigrant parents.
Mihaela Pirvulescu, Virginia Hill
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Object clitics for subject clitics and DOM phenomena in the Franco-Provençal dialects of Apulia
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 The relation between auxiliaries and argumental properties of the lexical verbs is the question raised by the facts we will investigate. Other issues are posed by the role and the behavior of deictic clitic pronouns in different contexts and in the ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Left dislocation in Zulu [PDF]
, 2004 This paper examines left dislocation constructions in Zulu, a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Nguni group (Zone S 40). In Zulu left dislocation configurations, a topic phrase in the beginning of the sentence is linked to a resumptive element ...
Zeller, Jochen
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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Studia Linguistica Romanica, 2022 The RIN ConDÉ (Constitution d'un droit européen : six siècles de coutumiers normands) project, financed by the Normandy region, proposes the digitization and enrichment of ten Norman customary law texts, from between the 13th and the 19th century. Thus,
Goux, Mathieu
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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An HPSG approach to Welsh unbounded dependencies [PDF]
, 2010 Welsh is a language in which unbounded dependency constructions involve both gaps and resumptive pronouns (RPs). Gaps and RPs appear in disjoint sets of environments. Otherwise, however, they are quite similar.
Borsley, RD
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"El nen s'ha menjat una aranya": The development of narratives in Catalan speaking children [PDF]
, 2020 The production of a well-constructed narrative is the culmination of several years of language acquisition and is an important milestone in children's development.
Anna JONES +22 more
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