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Null Subject Occurrence in Monolingual Spanish SLI: A Discriminant Function Analysis

Languages, 2018
Background: Child Spanish-speakers appear to use more null subjects than do adults. Null subject use, like the use of tense marking, is sensitive to discourse-pragmatics.
John Grinstead, Paij Lintz, Amy Pratt, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Juliana De la Mora, Myriam Cantú-Sánchez, Blanca Flores-Avalos   +6 more
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Diacronic and null subject in brazilian portuguese: comparative study

Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014
Our goal in this work is to diachronically examine and describe the subject in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), through a comparative study with data from European Portuguese (EP).
Aline Peixoto Gravina
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On the null-subject phenomenon [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter deals with the history on the studies on null subjects, and on the most recent approaches.
Cognola, Federica, Casalicchio, Jan
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Overt pronouns in null subject languages: an experimental investigation of Kashubian, Polish, and Silesian

Linguistics
Interpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs).
Ruda Marta, Huang Nick
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The role of grammatical role and thematic role predictability in reference form production in Mandarin Chinese

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Evidence suggests that English speakers use pronouns when referring to the grammatical subject and predictable thematic role. We tested how grammatical role and thematic role predictability affect different types of referential forms, namely, overt ...
Heeju Hwang, Suet Ying Lam, Wenjing Ni, He Ren   +3 more
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Revisiting the Null Subject Parameter: New Insights from Afro-Peruvian Spanish

Isogloss, 2017
With the advent of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), the prevailing view of linguistic variation and contrast within universal Grammar has undergone a shift from rigidly defined parameters ˗associated with clusters of properties (Chomsky 1981 ...
Sandro Sessarego, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach   +1 more
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On Subject Pronouns in Finnish-Italian Bilinguals: Effects of Cross-linguistic Influence on Discourse-pragmatics Competence

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
The distribution of overt pronouns has been the focus of much interest in the last decades as it is considered a typical phenomenon of the syntax-discourse/pragmatics interface, a locus of variability in different kinds of language acquisition (bilingual,
Lena Dal Pozzo
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If agreement is pronominal there is no pro-drop

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Using Irish, Spanish and English data, I argue that the null subject phenomenon is modulated by the presence/absence of unvalued φ-features in the clausal structure.
Luis López
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A Rank Order of Accurate Use at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Evidence from French and Spanish L2 Acquisition

Linguistik Online, 2011
In an attempt to investigate the vulnerability of the syntax-pragmatics interface and to shed light on the acquisition of subjects and objects in two different languages, namely the [+null subject] language Spanish and the [-null subject] language French,
Nicola Work
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The appearance, motion, and disappearance of three-dimensional magnetic null points

, 2015
N.A.M. acknowledges support from NASA grants NNX11AB61G, NNX12AB25G, and NNX15AF43G; NASA contract NNM07AB07C; and NSF SHINE grants AGS-1156076 and AGS-1358342 to SAO. C.E.P.
Parnell, Clare Elizabeth, Haynes, Andrew Lewis, A. Murphy, Nicholas, Nicholas A. Murphy, Clare E. Parnell, Andrew L. Haynes   +5 more
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