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Practically all Romance languages have complement clitic pronouns which basically replace the arguments of a verb. Only a sub-area of Romance, extending from France through northern Italy to the Adriatic Sea, also has subject clitics, connected to the ...
Paola Benincà
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Subject ellipsis in early child English
English-speaking children are known to omit subjects. Parametric analyses of the phenomenon have the advantage to give a simple answer to why children omit subjects and how they reach an adult grammar: the problem is reduced to a matter of parameter ...
Karina Bertolino
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Another look at the interpretation of overt and null pronominal subjects in bilingual language acquisition: Heritage Portuguese in contact with German and Spanish [PDF]
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/
Flores, Cristina, Rinke, Esther
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Field-Testing Code-Switching Constraints: A Report on a Strategic Languages Project
The present article provides an overview of ongoing field-based research that deploys a variety of interactive experimental procedures in three strategically chosen bilingual contact environments, whose language dyads facilitate a partial separation of ...
John M. Lipski
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The processing of subject pronouns in highly proficient L2 speakers of English
Studies on second language (L2) anaphora resolution have mainly focused on learners of null-subject languages, demonstrating that L2 speakers show residual indeterminacy in the L2 referential choice, even at the highest levels of proficiency.
Carla Contemori, Paola E. Dussias
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Acquisition of a null subject language
This study analyzes the use of pro-drop in speech among children between the ages2;0- 4;8 acquiring Turkish as a native language. The data analyzed is part of theCHILDES data base and includes cross-sectional language data from a total of 48children. The data was categorized according to the type of verb (verbal, nonverbal, existential or imperative ...
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Interface vulnerability in bilingual grammars?
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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Vietnamese and the NP/DP parameter [PDF]
This paper investigates the place of Vietnamese in the NP/DP typology as formulated by Bošković (2005, 2008, 2009, 2010). We show that Bošković’s NP/DP parameter breaks down into at least three separate parameters.
Lander, Eric, Phan Nguyen, Trang
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Studies have found that aspects of grammar that lie at the syntax–pragmatics interface, such as the use of pronominal subjects in null-subject languages, are likely to undergo cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speakers.
Michele Goldin
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Prediction Model for Etiologic Differentiation of Isolated Vestibular Syndrome in Emergency Settings
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to develop and validate a predictive model for differentiating central from peripheral etiologies in patients with isolated vestibular syndrome (VS). Methods In this multicenter retrospective cohort study, 506 patients with isolated VS from five hospitals were divided into derivation (n = 301) and validation (n = 205)
Guo Wenting +12 more
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