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Direct linkSerratrice, Ludovica – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Data from one English-Italian bilingual child (1;10-3;1) are presented in this study which challenge the hypothesis that the consistent realization of overt subjects in English is caused by the emergence of finite verbal morphology in the child's grammar. The argument is made for the emergence of subjects as an independent grammatical property of…
Descriptors: Italian, English, Bilingualism, Verbs
