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Direct linkHåkansson, Gisela – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
This article suggests a method to deal with cross-linguistic differences in children with Specific Language Impairment. The differences in vulnerable structures reflect typological properties of the surrounding language (e.g., Leonard 2014a, 2014b). This article adds a developmental perspective to the discussion by interpreting the vulnerable…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Ilic, Tatjana – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this dissertation I provide a principled, unified account of modality and causation in Serbian dative anticausatives using a typological, cognitive approach. This analysis is set within a larger claim that the causative and modal meanings crosslinguistically arise in the same morphosyntactic environments, indicating a shared conceptual base…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Serbocroatian, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Stevens, Jon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines two information-structural phenomena, Givenness and Focus, from the perspective of both syntax and pragmatics. Evidence from English, German and other languages suggests a "split" analysis of information structure--the notions of Focus and Givenness, often thought to be closely related, exist independently at…
Descriptors: Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Syntax, Pragmatics
Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Belletti, Adriana; Costa, João; Friedmann, Naama; Gavarró, Anna; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Tuller, Laurice; Lobo, Maria; Andelkovic, Darinka; Argemí, Núria; Avram, Larisa; Berends, Sanne; Brunetto, Valentina; Delage, Hélène; Ezeizabarrena, María-José; Fattal, Iris; Haman, Ewa; van Hout, Angeliek; de López, Kristine Jensen; Katsos, Napoleon; Kologranic, Lana; Krstic, Nadezda; Kraljevic, Jelena Kuvac; Miekisz, Aneta; Nerantzini, Michaela; Queraltó, Clara; Radic, Zeljana; Ruiz, Sílvia; Sauerland, Uli; Sevcenco, Anca; Smoczynska, Magdalena; Theodorou, Eleni; van der Lely, Heather; Veenstra, Alma; Weston, John; Yachini, Maya; Yatsushiro, Kazuko – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This study develops a single elicitation method to test the acquisition of third-person pronominal objects in 5-year-olds for 16 languages. This methodology allows us to compare the acquisition of pronominals in languages that lack object clitics ("pronoun languages") with languages that employ clitics in the relevant context…
Descriptors: Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages)
Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2011
The present article addresses the following question: what variables condition syntactic transfer? Evidence is provided in support of the position that third language (L3) transfer is selective, whereby, at least under certain conditions, it is driven by the typological proximity of the target L3 measured against the other previously acquired…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Schmitz, Katrin; Muller, Natascha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The present article investigates the acquisition of the pronominal systems by French and Italian monolingual children and by bilingual German-French and German-Italian children, demonstrating a stable asymmetry: object and reflexive clitics are acquired later than nominative clitics and strong subject and object pronouns. We will widen the scope…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Monolingualism, French
Gervain, Judit; Nespor, Marina; Mazuka, Reiko; Horie, Ryota; Mehler, Jacques – Cognitive Psychology, 2008
Learning word order is one of the earliest feats infants accomplish during language acquisition [Brown, R. (1973). "A first language: The early stages", Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.]. Two theories have been proposed to account for this fact. Constructivist/lexicalist theories [Tomasello, M. (2000). Do young children have adult…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Infants, Word Order
Guasti, Maria Teresa; Gavarro, Anna; de Lange, Joke; Caprin, Claudia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
Article omission is known to be a feature of early grammar, although it does not affect all child languages to the same extent. In this article we analyze the production of articles by 12 children, 4 speakers of Catalan, 4 speakers of Italian, and 4 speakers of Dutch. We consider the results in the light of (i) the adult input the children are…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages)
Pallotti, Gabriele, Ed.; Wagner, Johannes, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2011
This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction, how participants 'do' language learning and teaching in classroom and everyday…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics
Francesconi, Consuelo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses recent analyses of the adjective in Italian and stresses the importance of the position of the Italian adjective for second language learners of Italian and for Italians learning foreign languages. (CFM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Italian, Language Research, Nouns
Download full textKessler, Carolyn – 1972
A Language-research experiment designed to examine the linguistic competence of bilingual Italian-American children demonstrates that structures shared by Italian and English are acquired in approximately the same order and at the same rate, and that the sequencing of specific structures reflects linguistic complexity. Structures appearing in both…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
Bizzarri, Helen Herbig – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This study demonstrates the influence of a visit to the United States on the communicative competence in English of a bilingual child who lives in Rome, Italy, with his American mother and Italian father. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
Pavesi, Maria – IRAL, 1998
Compares conversion, a morphological process by which a word formed without explicit derivational mark, to phenomenon of multifunctionality; discusses with reference to alternative label of zero-derivation and directonality. Drawing on English and Italian second-language acquisition data, study shows process is productive from initial stages of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Italian, Language Research
Adger, David – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
An analysis of subject placement in Italian argues that placement is not determined entirely by case, but also partly by interpretational considerations. The crucial step in the argument is that there are independent well-formedness conditions on discourse structures and that the apparent interpretational effects on preposed subjects of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Italian
Peer reviewedMcKee, Cecile – Language Acquisition, 1992
Four experiments on the acquisition of binding are compared, two conducted with Italian-speaking children and two with English-speaking children. English-speaking children's mastery of pronominal binding is found to lag behind their mastery of binding for anaphors and R-expressions. (61 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
