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litic Climbing and Null Subject Languages

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2002
The aim of this paper is to derive Clitic Climbing from restructuring together with the Null Subject property. Data are drawn mainly from Catalan. I propose a biclausal analysis for restructuring constructions in which clitic climbing (like any clitic ...
Jaume Solà
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 77-116, March 2025.
Abstract Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult ...
Karina Tachihara, Adele E. Goldberg
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The Acquisition of Variable Phenomena: the Case of Past Participle Agreement in Québec French

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010
This paper investigates the use of past participle agreement by young preschool children and adults speaking Québec French. The results show that this type of optional agreement in the target grammar is a late acquisition, starting probably in school ...
Mihaela Pîrvulescu
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The formalization of interlanguage: the example of object clitic pronouns acquisition in French L2

Journal of Information and Telecommunication
The interlanguage of second and foreign language French learners presents certain patterns that offer a formal framework within the context of the Applicative Combinatory Categorical Grammar.
Amina Affes, Ismaïl Biskri, Adel Jebali
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Diglossic and Orthographic Features of Reading Comprehension in Standard Arabic: The Primacy of the Spoken Language

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the abjad writing system of Arabic.
Elinor Saiegh‐Haddad, Rachel Schiff
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Task Effects on Sentence Comprehension in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Sentence–Picture-Matching Tests

Languages
The present study compared two sentence–picture-matching tests in Greek, namely the Syntactic Proficiency Test and the sentence comprehension subtest of the Diagnostic Verbal Intelligence Quotient (DVIQ) battery, to assess complex sentence comprehension ...
Maria Andreou, Konstantina Sonia Antoniou, Eleni Peristeri   +2 more
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Sondas-guia

Revista Linguística
In the framework of the Agree operation of Chomsky (2000, 2001) and the feature geometry of Harley and Ritter (2002), this paper develops the hypothesis that the impossibility of combining certain clitics (Person Case Constraint (PCC)) is a consequence ...
Rafael Camacho Ramírez
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Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 590-593, June 2025.
Jonas Granfeldt (he/him)
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Is Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe) a dialect of Shua?

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
The endangered language Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe), spoken on the eastern fringe of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, is generally assumed to be a member of the Shua dialect cluster.
Anne-Maria Fehn
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