L2 French Learners’ Processing of Object Clitics: Data from the Classroom
The purpose of this study was to assess whether the well-documented paucity of object clitics in L2 French production reflects difficulties learners have comprehending these forms in classroom input.
Valerie Wust
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Syntactic Gender Agreement Processing on Direct-Object Clitics by Spanish-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence from ERP. [PDF]
Roa-Rojas P +4 more
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In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them').
Spencer, Andrew, Luís, Ana
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A Preliminary Examination of the Impact of Working Memory Training on Syntax and Processing Speed in Children with ASD. [PDF]
Delage H +3 more
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Object Clitic Placement in Cypriot Greek: A Comparative Study from Russian–Cypriot Greek Speakers.
This research focuses on the elicited production of 3rd person singular direct object clitics in Cypriot Greek by bilingual Russian–Cypriot Greek children.
Grohmann, Kleanthes, Sviatlana, Karpava
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Clitics in Sasak, eastern Indonesia
This paper is a discussion of the distribution of clitics in Sasak, an Austronesian (Western Malayo-Polynesian) language spoken by approximately two million people on the island of Lombok, eastern Indonesia.
Prof Peter, K. Austin
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A Probabilistic and Syntactic Account of Variable Clitic Agreement in Spanish Double Object Constructions. [PDF]
Guajardo G.
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The syntax of clitics in idiomatic and other fixed expressions
In response to Modern Greek (MGr) and Romance languages' studies focusing primarily on argument-related clitic (doubling) constructions (Anagnostopoulou, 1997, 1999; Drachman, 1997; Kalluli, 2000; Terzi, 1999; and Heap and Roberge, 2001; Herschenson ...
Bibis, Nick
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Working memory training in children with developmental language disorder: Effects on complex syntax in narratives. [PDF]
Delage H +3 more
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This study proposes an Optimality-theoretic model through which the various grammar components--semantics, syntax, the lexicon, morphology, and prosody--jointly determine the placement of clitics with a phrasal positioning domain, which is either a ...
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