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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Null subject"”.
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A parameters approach to second language research: Testing a directionality prediction of the null subject parameter
… The parameter tested in this study is the null subject parameter. This parameter identifies the differences between a language like English which requires overt subject pronouns and a language like Spanish which allows null subject pronouns.
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The Impact of a Study -Abroad Experience on the Acquisition of L2 Spanish Syntax: The Null Subject Parameter
These findings are important in that it is the first study that looks at the effect of the study-abroad experience on L2 learners' Spanish syntax. Empirical evidence gained from generative studies focusing on the development and acquisition of underlying syntactic competence by L2 learners in an …
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Testing the null subject parameter in adult second language acquisition: A study of Vietnamese and Spanish speakers learning English
… (L1s) which allow referential and expletive subjects to be null in tensed clauses must learn that English requires an obligatory subject. Second, they must learn certain properties of the English auxiliary system, namely the environments in which they are required and their position with …
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the Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay In Spanish Anaphora Comprehension
… such as repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns. Gordon, Grosz, and Gilliom (1993) showed that repeated names are harder to process than pronouns when the antecedent is the subject of a sentence, an effect which they called the Repeated Name Penalty (RNP). The RNP has been …
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Aspects of complex predicate formation in Romance
… of infinitival Infl(exion) in the Romance Null Subject Languages (NSL's) is (-Tense,+Agr). The presence of Agr in infinitival Infl will be shown to license verb movement to this position and as a consequence Verb Incorporation. Verb Incorporation will trigger complex predicates with MA …
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Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
… study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution of two typologically similar languages, Greek and Chilean Spanish, considering adult monolingual and bilingual speakers of Greek as a heritage/minority language in Chile. The focus is on null and overt third-person subjects in …
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Agreement morphology: a mathematical approach to integrate arabic syntax and semantics
… other. An empty string is proposed in cases of null-subject or covert copula clauses, specifically challenging constructions of Arabic syntax. The semantics of Arabic temporal morphosyntactic markers is represented depending on Wolfgang Klein’s theory of tense. As a part of my work, I develop a …
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Arabic pro-drop
… identical to Standard Arabic with regard to the null subject parameter. The topic then shifts to discourse, and what factors may trigger pro-drop usage. This topic is investigated by utilizing the Python programming language to analyze a corpus. New data suggest that there is little variation in …
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Syntax and discourse in the acquisition of adjunct control
… low level (e.g., within the VP), the null subject will fall into the domain of discourse control rather than syntactic control. If these claims are correct, we expect children to show adult-like control in adjuncts, albeit contingent upon the adjunct type. Three experiments were …
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L1 attrition in Italian: Pronominal reference and (pseudo-)relative parsing ambiguities
… for specific forms (e.g., overt pronouns in null-subject languages) and (ii) a tendency, which we believe has so far gone largely unnoticed, for speakers to rely more heavily on other (interpretive) biases already present in L1. To explore this second pattern and disentangle the role of …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
… investigated L1 and L2 pronoun interpretation in null-subject languages like Spanish, Italian, and Greek, finding that L1 speakers tend to show a topic-shift effect for overt pronouns more often than L2ers (Sorace, 2011). Similar studies on Japanese, which allows null subjects but also differs …
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The second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in English, Italian and Polish: testing the Interface Hypothesis
… testing for the second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in structures posited to contain i) narrow syntax and ii) syntax-discourse interface properties in three languages which vary in their realisation of these properties: English, Italian and Polish. 118 speakers of L1 …
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The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition: a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage
… Swedish syntax by children and adults (n = 9). Subjects comprise native speakers of Iraqi Arabic and Finnish. Each subject was recorded three times over the course of one year during informal speech elicitation interviews. The analysis focuses on the setting of the Null Subject Parameter, the …
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The EPP across Languages
… Principle (EPP) formalizes the requirement for a subject in every clause. In this dissertation, I develop a typology of EPP effects based on a sample of typologically, geographically, and genetically diverse languages. I define the EPP as the obligatory movement of some element into the …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… languages like Spanish. Pro-drop languages allow subject pronouns to be expressed overtly, as in the Spanish phrase Yo veo (I see), or null, as in Veo (*Ø see). Studies show that native speaker distribution of subject pronouns deals with the interface of narrow syntax and features of discourse, …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… languages like Spanish. Pro-drop languages allow subject pronouns to be expressed overtly, as in the Spanish phrase Yo veo (I see), or null, as in Veo (*Ø see). Studies show that native speaker distribution of subject pronouns deals with the interface of narrow syntax and features of discourse, …
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Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars
… Abundant L2 studies on the IH have focused on null-subject languages with rich inflection. By contrast, less attention has been paid to L2 acquisition of null arguments in languages with no subject-verb agreement, like Chinese. To fill in this gap, this study investigates the interpretation of …
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SUBJECT EXPRESSION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: CONSTRUCTION AND FREQUENCY EFFECTS
… BP) has for long been considered as a Null-subject language due to its variability in regards to subject expression (e.g. Era bom porque eu diminu\xeda de peso... era muito gordinha \u2018That was good because then I could lose some weight\u2026 (I) was a bit chubby. C33:179). Such …
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