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Featural Relativized Minimality in Silence: The Acquisition of Sluicing in Italian
GlossaThis paper investigates the acquisition of elliptical indirect wh-questions, i.e. sluicing, by Italian preschool children. The goal is to determine whether the locality principle of featural Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 2013, 2018) applies independently
Emanuela Sanfelici, Victoria Mateu
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Internal Grammar and Children's Grammatical Creativity against Poor Inputs. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 This article is about the unexpected linguistic behavior that young children sometimes display by producing structures that are only marginally present in the adult language in a constrained way, and that adults do not adopt in the same experimental ...
Belletti A.
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Similarity of wh-Phrases and Acceptability Variation in wh-Islands. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 In wh-questions that form a syntactic dependency between the fronted wh-phrase and its thematic position, acceptability is severely degraded when the dependency crosses another wh-phrase.
Atkinson E, Apple A, Rawlins K, Omaki A.
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Comprehension of double-center embedded relatives in Italian: a case for hierarchical intervention
Isogloss, 2023 Object relatives are more difficult to process than subject relatives. Several sentence processing models have been proposed to explain this difference.
Marco Sala +5 more
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On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates
Isogloss, 2022 Spanish psych verbs like gustar (‘like’/‘please’) have a non-agreeing dative experiencer that asymmetrically c-commands the agreeing nominative theme (e.g., Cuervo 2003). Intervention accounts (Friedmann et al.
Victoria Mateu
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Children’s subjects in Clitic Left Dislocations in Italian
Glossa, 2021 The study examined the production of subjects by Italian-speaking children in different pragmatic contexts which elicited the use of Clitic Left Dislocations (ClLD), pronoun structures and passives. The analysis takes into account the data from Belletti &
Adriana Belletti, Claudia Manetti
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Glossa, 2021 The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we intend to contribute to the debate on the identification of the features to which syntactic locality expressed in terms of the featural Relativized Minimality/ fRM principle appears to be sensitive (Rizzi 2004;
Adriana Belletti, Claudia Manetti
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The Role of D-Linking and Lexical Restriction in Locality Violations
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023 The major contrast discussed in the literature to show an obviation of the wh-island effect often involves a bare wh- element in the role of the intervener (e.g. who) and a “complex” wh-phrase (e.g. which book) in the role of the moved item.
Cristiano Chesi +2 more
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Intervention effects in the relative clauses of agrammatics: The role of gender and case
Glossa, 2018 Individuals with agrammatic aphasia are known to have difficulties interpreting Object Relative Clauses (ORCs), but not Subject Relative Clauses (SRCs).
Arhonto Terzi, Vicky Nanousi
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Glossa, 2017 We discuss a robust yet at first sight surprising fact: individuals who have problems understanding sentences with object A-bar movement cannot use overt Case marking of the object to interpret these sentences and to associate the DPs with thematic roles.
Adriana Belletti +2 more
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