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Comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition: a test for Relativized Minimality
Journal of Child Language, 2014 ABSTRACTCross-linguistic studies have shown that typically developing children have difficulties comprehending non-canonical structures. These findings have been interpreted within the Relativized Minimality (RM) approach, according to which local relations cannot be established between two terms of a dependency if an intervening element possesses ...
Varlokosta, S. +2 more
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Embedded verb second in north-eastern Italy
IsoglossIn this work, we put forth the observation that some V2 languages are sensitive to the category of the XP moved in first position, only in cases of embedded V2, but not in main clause V2. This shows: a) that embedded V2 can be different from main clause
Nicola D'Antuono +9 more
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DP and CP: a Relativized Minimality approach to one of their non parallelisms [PDF]
, 2014 Despite certain parallelisms, DPs and CPs also reveal profound differences. Here, we focus on one crucial difference between them: the one concerning extraction. In many languages extraction from (complement) DPs is more severely constrained than extraction from (complement) CPs (as we show on the basis of Italian and Bulgarian, in particular).
KRAPOVA, Iliana, CINQUE, Guglielmo
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Minimality effects in agrammatic comprehension [PDF]
, 2005 A new approach to agrammatic comprehension in Broca’s aphasia is proposed that provides a link between processing based and representational approaches to the topic.
Grillo, Antonino
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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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‘Again’ separation in Italian [PDF]
, 2023 In Italian, ri- ‘again’ can be separated from the constituent it is semantically attached to and challenges the structural account for the ambiguity of ‘again’-type elements.
Liu, Yuyang, Yuyang Liu
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On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates
Isogloss, 2022 Spanish psych verbs like gustar (‘like’/‘please’) have a non-agreeing dative experiencer that asymmetrically c-commands the agreeing nominative theme (e.g., Cuervo 2003). Intervention accounts (Friedmann et al.
Victoria Mateu
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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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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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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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