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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
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ANAPHORIC BIASES OF NULL AND OVERT PRONOMINAL SUBJECTS IN CHILD HERITAGE ROMANIAN

BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS
This study investigates intra-sentential pronominal subject resolution in ambiguous anaphora contexts by 7- and 10-year-old heritage Romanian – French bilinguals compared to age-matched monolingually-raised Romanian children living in the homeland. The data come from a binary sentence picture matching task which assessed the interpretation of (3rd ...
Larisa Avram, Alexandru Mardale, Elena Soare   +2 more
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Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
wiley   +1 more source

The role of prosody in overt pronoun resolution in a null subject language and in a non-null subject language: A production study

Glossa, 2019
In this study, we investigate how prosodic cues are used when an overt pronoun is associated with either a subject or an object antecedent in Italian and in Swedish.
Chiara Gargiulo, Mechtild Tronnier, Petra Bernardini   +2 more
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 4, Page 1018-1042, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

Interface vulnerability in bilingual grammars?

Isogloss
Bilingual children typically produce more redundant pronominal subjects than monolingual children in null subject languages like Spanish in contact with non-null subject languages like English (Montrul & Sánchez-Walker, 2013; Montrul, 2004; Paradis ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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Little pro’s, but how many of them? – On 3SG null pronominals in Hungarian

LingBaW, 2017
While Hungarian 3SG individual reference null pronominals are in free variation with their lexical counterparts, 3SG generic reference null pronominals do not show such variation.
Gréte Dalmi
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How Do M&A Rumours Influence Deal Completion? The Role of Board Gender Diversity and Language Differences

British Journal of Management, Volume 37, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract In this study, we apply the upper echelons theory (UET) lens to investigate how M&A rumours influence deal completion. Based on our findings, we propose a two‐stage channel that drives the rumour‐specific effect. In doing so, we provide theoretical arguments and empirical support for the relationship between M&A rumours and deal completions ...
Yama Temouri, Amir Shoham, Shlomo Tarba, Vijay Pereira   +3 more
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The Development of Basque Subject Pronoun Expression in Bilingual School-Age Children

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Acquiring full mastery of the pragmatic constraints regulating null/overt pronominal subjects in null subject languages like Basque is a prolonged and cognitively taxing process because pronominal distribution is pragmatically conditioned in discourse ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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Pronoun Resolution in Turkish: The Interplay of Referential Form, Word Order, and Implicit Causality

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract Pronouns are a ubiquitous part of discourse, but unusual in that their meaning is almost entirely determined by context. While early theorists hoped to explain pronouns based on a small number of simple principles, the last half‐century of research has revealed a cornucopia of influences at the syntactic, semantic, discourse, and pragmatic ...
Duygu Sarısoy, Ebru Evcen, Joshua Hartshorne   +2 more
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