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Internal Grammar and Children's Grammatical Creativity against Poor Inputs [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 This article is about the unexpected linguistic behavior that young children sometimes display by producing structures that are only marginally present in the adult language in a constrained way, and that adults do not adopt in the same experimental ...
Adriana Belletti, Adriana Belletti
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Similarity of wh-phrases and acceptability variation in wh-islands [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In wh-questions that form a syntactic dependency between the fronted wh-phrase and its thematic position, acceptability is severely degraded when the dependency crosses another wh-phrase.
Emily eAtkinson +3 more
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The D-linking effect on extraction from islands and non-islands [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 D-linked wh-phrases such as 'which car' are known to increase the acceptability of sentences with island violations. One influential account of this attributes the effect to working memory: the D-linked filler is easier to retrieve at the site of the gap
Grant Goodall
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Pure patterns of order 2 [PDF]
, 2017 We provide mutual elementary recursive order isomorphisms between classical ordinal notations, based on Skolem hulling, and notations from pure elementary patterns of resemblance of order $2$, showing that the latter characterize the proof-theoretic ...
Wilken, Gunnar
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Children’s subjects in Clitic Left Dislocations in Italian
Glossa, 2021 The study examined the production of subjects by Italian-speaking children in different pragmatic contexts which elicited the use of Clitic Left Dislocations (ClLD), pronoun structures and passives. The analysis takes into account the data from Belletti &
Adriana Belletti, Claudia Manetti
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Acquisition of French Causatives: Parallels to English Passives
Languages, 2018 Guasti (2016) notes similarities between English get- and be-passives, and Romance causatives of the faire-par and faire-infinitif types, respectively.
Jason Borga, William Snyder
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Glossa, 2021 The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we intend to contribute to the debate on the identification of the features to which syntactic locality expressed in terms of the featural Relativized Minimality/ fRM principle appears to be sensitive (Rizzi 2004;
Adriana Belletti, Claudia Manetti
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Intervention effects in the relative clauses of agrammatics: The role of gender and case
Glossa, 2018 Individuals with agrammatic aphasia are known to have difficulties interpreting Object Relative Clauses (ORCs), but not Subject Relative Clauses (SRCs).
Arhonto Terzi, Vicky Nanousi
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On the Causes of Superiority Effects in Spanish : Preliminary Results and Prospects [PDF]
, 2013 This article would not have been possible without the assistance of Javier Martín González (who distributed the questionnaires among his students), Sebastian Grüner (who carefully tabulated many pages of results), and Jana Häussler and Shravan Vasishth ...
Vicente, Luis
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Locative Inversion In Cantonese
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992 This paper proposes that locative inversion is a widespread syntactic process in Cantonese. The sentence-initial locative phrases in the Locative Inversion sentences are argued to be subjects which come from the postverbal complement position in the ...
Mok, Sui-Sang
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