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Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German: More Evidence on the Production of Objects

Languages, 2019
This paper compares the production of different types of direct objects by Portuguese–German and Polish–German bilingual school-aged children in their heritage languages (HLs), Polish and European Portuguese (EP).
Esther Rinke, Cristina Flores, Aldona Sopata   +2 more
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Covert nominals and argument ellipsis in Punjabi

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
The focus of the study is to find out the potential identity of null arguments in Punjabi. However, the paper provides different patterns of interpretations of null arguments present in Punjabi by keeping in view the propositions of Takahashi (2012, July)
Bisma Butt, Behzad Anwar, Abdul Malik Abbasi, Illahi Bakhsh, Shahnila Tariq   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Testing Bayesian and Heuristic Predictions of Mass Judgments of Colliding Objects [PDF]

, 2014
Mass judgments of colliding objects have been used to explore people’s understanding of the physical world because they are ecologically relevant, yet people display biases that are most easily explained by a small set of heuristics.
Adam eSanborn, Adam N. Sanborn, Sanborn, Adam N.   +2 more
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Null objects in brazilian portuguese [PDF]

, 2021
O objeto nulo do português brasileiro tem recebido a atenção de vários pesquisadores há mais de quatro décadas. É um fenômeno sintático intrigante, pois embora objetos nulos também ocorram em outras línguas, no português brasileiro eles têm ...
Cyrino, Sonia
core  

Spatially displaced excitation contributes to the encoding of interrupted motion by a retinal direction-selective circuit

eLife, 2021
Spatially distributed excitation and inhibition collectively shape a visual neuron’s receptive field (RF) properties. In the direction-selective circuit of the mammalian retina, the role of strong null-direction inhibition of On-Off direction-selective ...
Jennifer Ding, Albert Chen, Janet Chung, Hector Acaron Ledesma, Mofei Wu, David M Berson, Stephanie E Palmer, Wei Wei   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Directionality of Cross-Linguistic Effects in Bidialectal Bilingualism

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
This study explores the interpretation of null and overt object pronouns by Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) bidialectal bilinguals. Object pronouns are a particularly good domain to examine, given that, particularly with respect to
Tammer Castro, Jason Rothman, Jason Rothman, Marit Westergaard, Marit Westergaard   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Indefinite object drop is lexically constrained

Glossa
This paper discusses the lexical constraints regulating the occurrence of indefinite null objects in European Spanish in comparison to European Portuguese.
Carlos Martínez-García, Esther Rinke, Nelli Kerezova   +2 more
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Object drop in L3 acquisition

, 2014
The topic of cross-linguistic differences regarding the overt or null expression of arguments has been considered both in first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition.
Slabakova, Roumyana, María del Pilar García Mayo, Roumyana Slabakova, Garcia Mayo, María del Pilar   +3 more
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Exploring accessibility in direct object constructions in Santomean Portuguese

Isogloss
Null and pronominal direct objects have been extensively studied in both European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We aim to characterize the properties and distribution of null/pronominal objects in STP, by comparing them with those of EP ...
Rita Gonçalves, Ana Madeira
doaj   +1 more source

Missing objects in Hebrew: Argument ellipsis, not VP ellipsis

Glossa, 2018
Hebrew is standardly cited as a language exhibiting Verb-stranding VP-ellipsis (VSVPE). Systematic reassessment of the data demonstrates that all the alleged evidence for VSVPE is consistent with Argument Ellipsis (AE); furthermore, there are ample data ...
Idan Landau
doaj   +2 more sources