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The development and evaluation of an automatic clitic generator for Pashto language

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Clitics are unstressed and unaccented words or particles that are phonetically dependent on adjacent words, accented in nature. They are available in many languages around the world including the Pashto language, which is spoken in Pakistan and ...
Aziz Ud Din   +4 more
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Cuantitative clitics in Romance and Slavic

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991
In this article I argue that quantitative clitics in Romance (Italian and French) and Slavic (Czech) perform the task of identifying a quantitative pro inside an internal argument, since they carry the feature [+ quantitative] .
Luis A. Sáez
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Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
This paper provides an account of two related aspects of the past-tense morphosyntax of Shughni (Eastern Iranian): (i) the use of second-position clitics, rather than the verbal suffixes of the present tense, to index past-tense subjects’ φ-features; and
Clinton Parker
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L3 Regressive Transfer: A Study of Null Objects in the Basque and Spanish Grammars of Advanced L3 English Speakers

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006
This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate.
Maria Babyonyshev, Stefania Marin
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Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis

open access: yesLingBaW, 2023
This contribution addresses a central theme in morphological analysis, namely the relationship between clitics and inflectional elements. Important contributions on the point are due to Anderson (1992) and Marantz (1988), who, in different ways, connect
Leonardo M. Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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*Pronoun+Clitic

open access: yesBaltistica, 1983

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Language Dominance Shapes Protracted Development of Nonpersonal Clitics (Even) in Cases of Widespread Bilingualism

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Irony Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesAutism Research, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examined verbal irony comprehension in monolingual and bilingual autistic children, focusing on irony recognition, intention understanding, cue use while deciphering ironic meanings, and error patterns. A low‐verbal, multimodal task was used to minimize linguistic and metalinguistic demands.
Maria Andreou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages ...
Liliana Sánchez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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