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Children With ASD Do Not Understand Hidden Emotions Before False Belief Attribution

open access: yesAutism Research, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Previous studies concluded that theory of mind (ToM) development is deviant in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Typically developing children's ability to understand that one may hide their emotion would be acquired before false belief understanding in children with ASD (e.g., Peterson and Wellman 2019), but with contradictory results (e.g ...
Morgane Burnel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Acquisition of Case in Spanish Pronominal Object Clitics in English-Speaking College-Level L2 Learners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish pronominal object clitics (POCs) has been a topic of research with regards to clitic placement (Houston, 1997; Lee, 1987; LoCoco, 1987; VanPatten, 1984; and VanPatten & Houston 1998), acquiring specific ...
Olsen, Michael Kevin
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Subject Clitics: New Evidence from Old Nubian

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
This article treats a set of subject cross-referencing morphemes in the medieval Nilo-Saharan language Old Nubian, traditionally called “personal endings.” Based on an analysis of their syntactic distribution and morphology, I argue that this set can be ...
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
doaj   +2 more sources

ReChat: A Task‐Based Chatbot for EV Charging Management Optimization

open access: yesIET Intelligent Transport Systems, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
ReChat is a multilingual task‐based chatbot for EV charging management, combining supervised intent classification with a deterministic and safe task‐to‐action mapping. Experiments on six languages and an end‐to‐end Telegram prototype validate its monitoring and control capabilities.
Pablo Donate   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subject Clitics in Child French

open access: yes, 2014
There has been debate over whether French subject clitics are affixes denoting agreement (Legendre et al. (2010); Culbertson 2010), or syntactic arguments (de Cat 2005).
Gotowski, Megan
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
wiley   +1 more source

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN CLITICS AND WORDS IN DEGEMA, NIGERIA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Defining clitics has been attempted in the literature. Similarities between clitics, affixes, and words have been pointed out. Kari concluded that clitics are not affixes. The question then is if Degema clitics are not affixes, are they words? This paper
Kari, Ethelbert E.
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
wiley   +1 more source

An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagels Law

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in Nineveh plains in Iraq is discussed in detail with respect to forms and distributions and much more interestingly with respect to sensitivity to Wackernagel
Dr. Abbas H. J. Sultan
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