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4 Optionality in Bilingual Grammars: Establishing Anaphoric Dependencies in Pro-Drop Languages
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Boundary tones in production and comprehension of in pro-drop language: the case of Korean
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012This paper investigates if boundary tones have either a gradient or a categorical indication of structural phrasing. The role of prosody in syntactic disambiguation has been well documented and a recent study showed Korean speakers use the presence and absence of boundary tones to disambiguate a null-argument sentence borne out of double nominative ...
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Acquisition of pronoun anaphoric expressions in a pro-drop language
2017In early child language the use of pronouns is deictic. The use of pronouns bound to their antecedents implies child's ability to use more complex syntactic expressions marking child's language development on a sentence and discourse level. In Croatian, as a pro-drop (or a null-subject) language, the pronoun can be omitted leaving only morphological ...
Matić Škorić, Ana +2 more
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The pro drop parameter and second language acquisition by Japanese learners of English
1990Universal grammar is assumed to activate in first language acquisition, as a language acquisition device with which all human beings are innately endowed.
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Whose feet is it? Pronominal possessives in pro-drop languages: an experimental study.
2017We present an experimental study (off-line acceptability rating task) conduced with native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish and Italian to verify syntactic constraints on the possessive pronoun-antecedence relation in full pro-drop languages (Italian) and partial pro-drop (Brazilian Portuguese and Finnish). The goal of the investigation was to
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Deriving Null, Strong and Emphatic Pronouns in Romance Pro-Drop Languages
2017It is well-known that overt subject pronouns in Romance Null Subject Languages display properties with respect to information structure and interpretation that set them apart from overt weak pronouns in a non-Null Subject Language like English. On the one hand, overt subject pronouns in a language like Spanish have been argued to be reluctant to occur ...
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The Pro-drop Parameter in Second Language Acquisition Revisited: A Developmental Account
2001This dissertation applies a particular theory of language acquisition and representation, Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, Grimshaw 1997), and a particular learning algorithm within this theory, the Constraint Demotion Algorithm (Tesar and Smolensky 2000), to the problem of how second language acquisition of pro-drop takes place for ...
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Subjects in a pro-drop language. Syntactic roles, discourse categories and the interpretation of pro
2008The Null Subject parameter and general economy requirements might lead to the expectation that, in a pro-drop language like Italian, overt subjects are only realized to guarantee recoverability in the discourse. However, the study of spoken corpora shows that this is not the case: overt subjects are often realized, even when coreference interpretation ...
FRASCARELLI, MARA, TRECCI A.
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