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]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT 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.
Frizelle P +6 more
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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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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect [PDF]
, 2010 PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara
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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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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]
PsychophysiologyABSTRACT 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
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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan
Glossa, 2021 This paper presents some facts about the syntax of subject pronouns in contact. We investigate agreement and EPP-checking in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil in contact with Brazilian Portuguese ...
Alberto Frasson
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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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Sentence Comprehension and L2 Exposure Effects in 6-Year-Old Sequentially Bilingual Children With Typical Development and Developmental Language Disorder. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT 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 ...
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What is the source of L1 attrition? The effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition [PDF]
, 2015 The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent L1 re-exposure on antecedent preferences for Spanish pronominal ...
Sturt, Patrick +2 more
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