What corpus data reveal about the Position of Antecedent Strategy: anaphora resolution in Spanish monolinguals and L1 English-L2 Spanish bilinguals [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study investigates the acquisition of anaphora resolution (AR) in Spanish as a second language (L2). According to the Position of Antecedent Strategy (PAS), in native Spanish null pronominal subjects are biased toward subject antecedents, whereas ...
Cristóbal Lozano, Teresa Quesada
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The Understanding of Complex Syntax in Children From 5 to 9 Years, Using a Novel Assessment Approach – The Test of Complex Syntax‐ Electronic (TECS‐E) [PDF]
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 60, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Introduction The present study investigated English‐speaking 5–9 year olds’ (n = 600, normative sample) comprehension of relative, adverbial and complement clauses using the Test of Complex Syntax‐Electronic (TECS‐E), an online interactive assessment. with strong test‐retest reliability, concurrent validity and internal consistency.
Pauline Frizelle +6 more
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No Effect of Continuous Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation on the P3, the P600, or Physiological Markers of Noradrenergic Activity in an Oddball and Sentence Comprehension Task [PDF]
Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT The ERP components P3 and P600 have been proposed to reflect phasic activity of the locus coeruleus norepinephrine (LC/NE) system in response to deviant and task‐relevant stimuli across cognitive domains. However, causal evidence for this link remains limited. Here, we used continuous transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), a
Friederike Contier +3 more
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Sentence Comprehension and L2 Exposure Effects in 6‐Year‐Old Sequentially Bilingual Children With Typical Development and Developmental Language Disorder [PDF]
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 60, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Background Differentiating typical language development (TD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) in a bilingual context is difficult. The societal language is often the only mutual language of the child and the SLT. It has been shown that when assessing second language (L2) performance using tools developed for monolingual children ...
Sini Smolander +5 more
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Subject and Object Pronouns in High-Functioning Children With ASD of a Null-Subject Language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Although the use of pronouns has been extensively investigated in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), most studies have focused on English, and no study to date has investigated the use of subject pronouns in null subject languages.
Arhonto Terzi +4 more
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Glossa, 2018 This paper investigates the interpretation of overt and null subject pronouns in the heritage language (European Portuguese, EP) of Portuguese heritage bilinguals (children and teenagers) in Germany and Andorra with German (Ger) and Spanish/Catalan (Span/
Esther Rinke, Cristina Flores
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First Language Attrition and Dominance: Same Same or Different? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 We explore the relationship between first language attrition and language dominance, defined here as the relative availability of each of a bilingual’s languages with respect to language processing.
Barbara Köpke, Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke
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Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
Isogloss, 2022 The present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, interpret null and overt pronominal subjects in intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30 speakers of EP and 30 of
Alexandra Fiéis +2 more
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Referential Dependencies in Turkish: Some Novel Arguments on the Binding of Kendisi, O and Pro
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 The Turkish reflexive kendisi (self-3SG.POSS) deviates from Principle A of the Binding Theory and from the Minimalist movement approaches to referential dependencies.
Nazik DİNÇTOPAL DENİZ
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A note on subject clitics in Akan
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 This paper is concerned with the analysis of pronominal subject clitics (SCLs) in Akan within the Priniciples and Parameters framework of syntactic theory.
Richard Campbell
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