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  • The Acquisition of the Morphosyntax-Pragmatic Interface in French L1 : Evidence from reference with articles and pronouns 
    Rozendaal, Margot (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "One of the first uses to which children put language is reference. Reference can be defined as the use a linguistic expression to identify a person or object (Brown and Yule 1983). This is a crucial part of language ...
  • The Relationship Between Word Prosodic Structure and Sentence Prosody : (Non)evidence from Brazilian Portuguese 
    Santos, Raquel S.; Fikkert, Paula (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "In recent years a number of studies have addressed the acquisition of prosodic structure, in particular word stress (Fikkert 1994, Demuth 1996, Demuth and Fee 1995, Gerken 1994, Archibald 1995, Santos 2001, 2003, Grimm ...
  • Null and Overt Subjects at the Syntax-Discourse Interface : Evidence from monolingual and bilingual acquisition 
    Serratrice, Ludovica (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "In this paper I will investigate the extent to which children understand and produce lexical noun phrases (NPs) and null and overt pronouns in appropriate discourse contexts in two languages like English and Italian ...
  • Modality, Non-Finite Forms and the Manifestation of the RI Stage in Null and Non-Null Subject Languages 
    Liceras, Juana M.; Perales, Susana; Bel, Aurora (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "One of the aspects of child language that has attired the attention of numerous researchers concerns the production of non-finite forms in contexts where a finite form would be required, i.e., what have come to be known ...
  • Acquiring a Null Object Language : When children sound target-like, but really aren't 
    Vasconcellos Lopes, Ruth E. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "The aim of this paper is to examine the acquisition of null direct objects in two Brazilian monolingual children. As is well known, Brazilian Portuguese (BP, henceforth) exhibits null objects in any syntactic context, ...
  • Beyond Deficiency : Reconsidering the null subject phenomenon 
    Palasis-Jourdan, Katérina; Oliviéri, Michèle (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    This paper investigates the child null subject phenomenon in L1 acquisition within the generative framework. We consider that the traditional hypotheses, usually based on child deficiency, have their limits. We therefore ...
  • Germanic and Romance Discourse Devices in Acquisition 
    Kampen, Jacqueline van; Pinto, Manuela (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "In a discourse fragment, say a story, we see a set of intended referents (for example: a girl, an attic, a bed, a little bear). The members of that set appear and reappear in changing configurations when the story ...
  • The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Focus : A case of incomplete and divergent grammars 
    Domínguez, Laura (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "This paper explores the second language acquisition of Spanish word order with the aim of analysing the availability of optional forms in advanced non-native grammars. In contrast to English, Spanish word order is ...
  • On the Acquisition of Clitic Se and Aspect in Spanish 
    Escobar, Linda; Torrens, Vicenç (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    The literature on acquisition of aspect has focussed on the perfectivityimperfectivity distinction. In this paper we deal with this topic regarding the acquisition of aspectual clitic se which is crucially related to ...
  • Towards a Theory of Language Acquisition 
    Kampen, Jacqueline van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "We have seen at the workshop a diversity of measurements and a no less diverse amount of different phenomena. Shared areas were acquisition phenomena in Romance languages and more general: the beginnings for a true ...
  • The Role of Syllable Structure in the Acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese 
    Bonilha, Giovana; Lisbôa Mezzomo, Carolina; Lamprecht, Regina Ritter (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "According to Fery and Van de Vijver (2003), the 70’s were characterized, in the phonological studies, as the time when the syllable was considered as a prosodic unit, especially in the studies of Vennemann (1974), Hooper ...
  • Object Clitics as Last Resort : Implications for language acquisition 
    Avram, Larisa; Coene, Martine (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2008-01)
    "Various studies dealing with the emergence of Accusative direct object clitics (ADOCs) have revealed that they are not used in an adult-like fashion from the first observable stages. The present paper investigates the ...
  • Prosody in Indonesian Languages 
    Heuven, Vincent J. van; Zanten, Ellen van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    This book presents highlights of the results of the research program “Phonetics and phonology of (word) prosodic systems in the languages of Indonesia”. The main focus of the book is on (i) the way in which questions and ...
  • Intonation of the Yogyakarta palace language 
    Rahyono, F.X. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    "Not much prosodic research has been done on the languages of Indonesia in general. Indonesian prosody was researched by Pané (1950), Halim (1969), Samsuri (1971), Laksman (1991, 1994), Odé (1994), van Zanten (1994) and ...
  • Prosody in Indonesian languages: Concluding remarks 
    Heuven, Vincent J. van; Zanten, Ellen van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    "A fair amount of research has been done on the prosody of European/Western languages. In contrast, prosodic descriptions of non-Western languages have been rare. As Goedemans (to appear) notices, at the start of the Prosody ...
  • Prosodic markers of the statement-question contrast in Kutai Malay 
    Sugiyono (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    "Kutai Malay is spoken along the Mahakam River in the Kutai regency, East Kalimantan Province. Its speakers call it a language, but it is labeled a dialect of Malay by Wurm & Hattori (1981). According to Collins (1992) ...
  • A functional typology of Austronesian and Papuan stress systems 
    Zanten, Ellen van; Goedemans, Rob (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    "The ultimate aim of linguistics is to understand how human language works. Typological research can help to reach this aim by revealing patterns in the languages of the world. In this chapter we will focus on stress ...
  • Melodic structure in Toba Batak and Betawi Malay word prosody 
    Roosman, Lilie (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    "In languages with word stress, one (and only one) syllable is perceived by native listeners of the language as stronger than the other syllables in the same word. On the higher levels, in phrases or sentences, accent is ...
  • The intonation of Manado Malay 
    Stoel, Ruben (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    "In this paper I will give an overview of the intonation of Manado Malay. Intonation is a topic that is often ignored in grammars of Indonesian languages. This is a serious shortcoming, as intonation is an essential part ...
  • Stress and accent in Indonesian 
    Goedemans, Rob; Zanten, Ellen van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2007-11)
    "For many phonologists, the odd feature with respect to Indonesian stress is the initial-dactyl effect, reported by Cohn (1989). This effect describes the distribution of secondary stresses in words of more than three ...