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Irony Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism 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
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Clitic-doubling and (non-)configurationality [PDF]
, 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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Cherokee Clitics: The Word Boundary Problem
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1999 The problem of identifying Cherokee clitics is complicated by the fact that the prosodic word, marked by the presence of a tonal boundary, may not match the morphological word.
Haag, Marcia
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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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Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis
LingBaW, 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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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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The acquisition of clitic objects in Modern Greek : single clitics, clitic doubling, clitic left dislocation [PDF]
, 2013 The present study is concerned with Single Clitics, as weil as with Clitic Doubling and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions and will test the Uniformity Hypothesis (Sportiehe 1992), according to which all three constructions involve the same underlying
Marinis, Theodore
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, 1999 The article addresses the properties of object clitics in Macedonian and Bulgarian.Their order constraints are explained on the basis of the sentence structure and its specialized positions for clitic arguments.
FICI, FRANCESCA +2 more
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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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Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics [PDF]
, 2013 I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent ...
Law, Paul
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