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Allomorphic Variation of Definite Articles in Jersey: a Sonority Based Account
… phenomenon in Jersey (Jersey Norman French). Definite articles in Jersey each have at least two allomorphs. The occurrence of each allomorph has been attributed to the composition of word initial syllable following the article (Liddicoat 1994). Instead of using a ruled-based approach, this …
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Allomorphic Variation of Definite Articles in Jersey: a Sonority Based Account
… phenomenon in Jersey (Jersey Norman French). Definite articles in Jersey each have at least two allomorphs. The occurrence of each allomorph has been attributed to the composition of word initial syllable following the article (Liddicoat 1994). Instead of using a ruled-based approach, this …
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Situations and individuals
I argue that definite descriptions, pronouns and proper names share one common syntax and semantics, basically that of definite descriptions. E-type pronouns are argued to be definite articles that take NP complements elided in the phonology; referential and bound variable pronouns are analyzed as …
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Morphosyntactic variation and contact: A comparative view from Daco-Romance
… Daco-Romance generally displays postnominal definite articles (cf. Ro. *pietre**le*** vs It. ***le** pietre* ‘the stones’) and completely lacks the synthetic future, displaying instead a Balkan-style future construction made from the auxiliary WANT and the infinitive (cf. Ro. ***voi** dormi* …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… speakers’ knowledge of the distribution of definite articles in both of their languages using a battery of tests that require them to draw on different linguistic abilities. These three groups include native English speakers who learned Spanish after adolescence, native Spanish speakers who …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… compared the morphophonological patterns of the definite article system at the production and perception level between two groups of early learners of Haitian Creole (i.e. native speakers vs. United States (US) born heritage speakers).<br /><br />The study examined the extent to which heritage …
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The effects of comprehensive written corrective feedback on the revision and acquisition of specific L2 forms
… gender agreement, (c) omission of definite articles in obligatory contexts, and (d) the correct use of the present subjunctive - were measured and analyzed to compare the effects of the treatments on both L2 and HL learners. Overall, the WCF treatment led the students to make more …
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L’acquisition des Catégories Fonctionnelles : Étude comparative du développement du DP français chez des enfants et des apprenants adultes
… analysis deals with the syntactic status of the definite article, a clitic head (X0). Data from elision and incorporation are used for the analysis. Following our main hypotheses, the syntactic “lightness” of the clitic definite article predicts different acquisition patterns in 2L1 and L2. This …
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Variación Sintáctico-Semántica Del Artículo Definido en Sintagmas Nominales en El Español De Hispanohablantes De Herencia
… to preverbal nouns that are modified only by a definite article. For these two languages, nouns differ in their syntactic distribution and in their interpretation. While bare nouns in subject position are grammatical in English, this structure is usually not considered grammatical in Spanish …