The Bilingual Native Speaker Competence: Evidence From Explicit and Implicit Language Knowledge Using Elicited Production, Sentence-Picture Matching, and Pupillometry [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The present pilot study investigated potential effects of early and late child bilingualism in highly proficient adult bilinguals. It has been shown that some early second language (eL2) speakers stagnate when it comes to complex linguistic phenomena and
Anna-Lena Scherger +4 more
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Assessing Intervention Effects in Sentence Processing: Object Relatives vs. Subject Control [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Object relative clauses are harder to process than subject relative clauses. Under Grillo’s (2009) Generalized Minimality framework, complexity effects of object relatives are construed as intervention effects, which result from an interaction between ...
João Delgado +3 more
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A Diachronic Perspective on the English Preposition TO and the Romanian Preposition LA
Linguaculture, 2021 The paper discusses the different evolution of the English preposition (P) to and the Romanian P la “at/to” which can be observed in the history of English and Romanian ditransitives.
Tania Zamfir
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Investigation of Lexical and Inflectional Verb Production and Comprehension in French-Speaking Teenagers with Developmental Language Disorders (DLDs) [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesLittle research has studied verb inflection and argument structure complexity effects in teenagers with developmental language disorders (DLDs). However, verb production and comprehension deficits that characterize younger children with DLD might persist
Marie Pourquié +3 more
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Representation of the verb's argument-structure in the human brain [PDF]
BMC Neuroscience, 2008 Background A verb's argument structure defines the number and relationships of participants needed for a complete event. One-argument (intransitive) verbs require only a subject to make a complete sentence, while two- and three-argument verbs ...
Assadollahi Ramin, Rockstroh Brigitte S
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Corrigendum: The Bilingual Native Speaker Competence: Evidence From Explicit and Implicit Language Knowledge Using Elicited Production, Sentence-Picture Matching, and Pupillometry [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Anna-Lena Scherger +4 more
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Object marking in ditransitives
, 2022 AbstractChapter 3 extends the approach developed in Chapter 2 from monotransitives to ditransitives. It addresses two parameters regarding object marking: symmetry and the number of object markers. The first parameter distinguishes between asymmetric marking in which only the highest object (Benefactive/Recipient) can be object-marked and symmetric ...
Jenneke Van Der Wal
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Malay and Cebuano ditransitives: A minimalist perspective
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 In the tradition of the generative school of thought in linguistics, the Universal Grammar (UG) is in the forefront in shifting linguistics from behavioral to cognitive science making linguistics an integral part of the study of cognition (Bocckx 2008:6-
Rodney C. Jubilado +1 more
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Ditransitive Constructions [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2015 Ditransitive constructions are syntactic constructions with three arguments, an agent (A), a theme (T), and a recipient (R), which express an event of possessive transfer (‘give,’ ‘lend,’ etc.) or an event of cognitive transfer (‘tell,’ ‘show,’ etc.). Their cross-linguistic study has revealed three major alignment types: indirective alignment (with the
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Grammatical relations in Ikalanga
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Joyce T. Mathangwane, E. Kweku Osam
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