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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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A CLOSER LOOK AT (LACK OF) OBVIATION PHENOMENA IN ROMANIAN SUBJUNCTIVE COMPLEMENTS [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
The paper looks at Romanian subjunctive complements selected by volitional verbs and considers the interpretation of their null subjects and why – unlike the case of other Romance languages – these can co-refer with a main clause antecedent (what has ...
Maria Aurelia Cotfas
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Wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance: A locative account

Glossa, 2016
This paper explores the hypothesis that wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance is a type of locative inversion, involving a null locative argument.
Alice Corr
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Null safety benchmarks for object initialization

Труды Института системного программирования РАН, 2018
Null pointer dereferencing remains one of the major issues in modern object-oriented languages. An obvious addition of keywords to distinguish between never null and possibly null references appears to be insufficient during object initialization when ...
A. V. Kogtenkov
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Null subject pronouns in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese)

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
This paper investigates variation in the subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese), a language without verb inflection. Previous accounts of Kristang (Baxter, 1988, 2012b; Hancock, 1969, 1973; Knowlton, 1964; R&
Alan Norman Baxter, Larissa de Santana Silva   +1 more
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Age of Onset and Dominance in the Choice of Subject Anaphoric Devices: Comparing Natives and Near-Natives of Two Null-Subject Languages. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2018
Di Domenico E, Baroncini I.
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Towards a Typology of Zero Aboutness: Expletive A in Fornese and Chiru in Cilentano

Languages
This paper investigates the syntactic–pragmatic behavior of two expletive-like elements, namely a and chiru, in Fornese and Cilentano, two Romance varieties spoken in Northern and Southern Italy, respectively.
Simone De Cia, Mariangela Cerullo
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Revisiting Native Grammar Through L2 Theories: Knowledge And Processing of Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Turkish

Nesne Psikoloji Dergisi
This study investigates the interpretative and processing mechanisms of null and overt subject pronouns at the syntax-discourse interface among native Turkish speakers.
Oktay Çınar
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ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning. [PDF]

Dev Sci
Visser I, Geambasu A, Kachergis G, Oliveira CM, Rocha-Hidalgo J, Zettersten M, Ahamat T, Alessandroni N, Althaus N, Arunachalam S, Aussems S, Axelsson EL, Aydin Z, Baumgartner HA, Bergmann C, Bettoni R, Black AK, Bulf H, Byers-Heinlein K, Capparini C, Carroll L, Carstensen A, Cebulla R, Chen X, Chládková K, Colavolpe B, Constantine RR, Cortes EE, Doyle FL, Exner A, Forbes SH, Franchin L, Geraci A, Gervain J, Gonzalez-Gomez N, Hagelund S, Hannon EE, Havron N, Jaffe-Dax S, Johnson SP, Jędryczka W, Kartushina N, Struhl MK, Koleini A, Kona A, Kong SP, Kosie JE, Kuc̆erová M, Cook K, Leslie JW, Lew-Williams C, Li SWY, Livne R, Marklund E, Mayor J, Misiak M, Moreau D, Mueller JL, Muhinyi A, Quinn AA, Raijmakers MEJ, Rosslund A, Schwarz IC, Shinskey JL, Shukla M, Sirois S, Sorokowski P, Sowan B, Tauzin T, Tsui ASM, Turconi M, Urizar RC, Wagner L, Wermelinger S, Westermann G, Weyers I, Yuan LSB, Zaharieva MS, Zamuner TS, Zapiór B, Zasso S, Zhou JG, Soderstrom M, Levelt CC.   +83 more
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Extending standardized speech analysis across languages: An Italian toolkit for transcription and coding of neurological speech. [PDF]

Behav Res Methods
Benzini A, Lanzi AM, Palmirotta C, Aresta S, Battista P, Santi GC.   +5 more
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