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  • Proceedings of GALA 2003 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) held at Utrecht University 4-6 September 2003. Volume 2 
    Kampen, Jacqueline van; Baauw, Sergio (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    We are very pleased to present here the Proceedings of 5th GALA Conference (GALA: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition). This conference took place in the late summer of 2003 in the old inner city of Utrecht ...
  • Discourse Binding: Does it Begin with Nominal Ellipsis? 
    Wijnen, Frank; Roeper, Tom; Meulen, Hiske van der (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Sentences are normally not used in isolation. They are preceded and followed by other sentences, delivered either by the same speaker or writer, or by an interlocutor. Language users live by the principle that sentences ...
  • Why Children Omit Clitics in Some Languages but not in Others: New Evidence from Greek 
    Tsakali, Vina; Wexler, Kenneth (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In this paper we investigate developmental properties of direct object clitics across languages, in particular the status of clitic omission in child Greek. Our focus is whether clitic omission is a universal stage that ...
  • Overspecification in Early English 
    Tesan, Graciela; Thornton, Rosalind (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "After almost 50 years of research in Generative Linguistics, there is little doubt that many properties of human languages are innately determined in our genetic make up. Still, one the most enduring questions is how much ...
  • On the Role of Aspect in Determining Finiteness and Temporal Interpretation in Early Grammar 
    Torrence, Harold; Hyams, Nina (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Over the past several years there has been increasing interest in the temporal and aspectual properties of root infinitive (RI) and other non-finite structures in child language. One generalization that has emerged concerns ...
  • Acquisition Evidence for an Interface Theory of Focus 
    Szendrői, Kriszta (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Main stress in English falls on the rightmost element. As the following question-answer pairs illustrate, an utterance with neutral stress is ambiguous with respect to its focus interpretation (Chomksy 1971). In particular, ...
  • Differences in Sentence Comprehension Tasks between Children with Williams Syndrome and Specific Language Impairment : Evidence from Greek 
    Stavrakaki, Stavroula (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Recently, language development in developmental disorders such as Williams syndrome (WS) and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has received great attention by psycholinguists. Specifically, the question of whether ...
  • Participial Constructions in Child Grammar: Correlations with Verb Movement Properties 
    Salustri, Manola; Berger-Morales, Julia; Sy, Mariame (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In this paper, we investigate the development of participial constructions, specifically the present perfect construction, from a cross-linguistic perspective. We will account for previously unobserved differences regarding ...
  • How Do Children Say “Yes” in European Portuguese? 
    Lúcia Santos, Ana (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "This paper provides some preliminary findings of a project concerning the acquisition of answer patterns to yes-no questions in European Portuguese (EP). It is argued that the acquisition of these answer patterns provides ...
  • Sensitivity to Subject-Verb Agreement in Children with Developmental Language Disorders: A comparison of developmental dyslexia with SLI 
    Rispens, Judith; Been, Pieter (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Developmental dyslexia refers to an impairment in reading and writing, despite average intellectual ability and normal educational opportunity. The average population risk of developmental dyslexia is around 3-10%. However, ...
  • Recursion as an Analytic Device in Acquisition 
    Roeper, Thomas; Snyder, William (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "The child's linguistic input often includes evidence for incorrect grammatical analyses. For instance, the child acquiring English will hear sentences such as "Here comes the train," but English is not in general a V2 ...
  • The Issue of Morphological Variation in Adult L2 French 
    Prévost, Philippe (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Recent research on the nature of interlanguage (IL) grammars has focused on the issue of variability in the production of inflectional morphology by second language (L2) learners, namely the fact that main verbs may be ...
  • Markedness Hierarchies vs. Positional Faithfulness and the Role of Multiple Grammars in the Acquisition of Greek 
    Revithiadou, Anthi; Tzakosta, Marina (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Child language research investigates how language development proceeds. In pursuing this question, many researchers argued that markedness constraints are initially more prominent in the emerging grammar since they are ...
  • Contiguity in Phonological Acquisition 
    Pas, Brigit van der (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "This paper compares two typical phenomena in phonological development: Onset Selection in Truncation (OST) and Onset Cluster reduction (OC-red). Motivation for this comparison is that in both cases target onset segments ...
  • On Children’s Knowledge of Scalar Implicatures : Evidence from Hebrew coordination 
    Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Leah R.; Schaeffer, Jeannette (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "There has been much discussion about children’s knowledge of scalar implicatures. Some researchers have found evidence for early knowledge of these implicatures, i.e. Papafragou and Musolino (2003) for numerical scales, ...
  • The Limits of Context in L2 Semantic Ambiguity Resolution 
    Outcalt, Samantha D.; Dekydtspotter, Laurent (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "A growing body of research in the generative paradigm investigates differences between non-native and native sentence processing. Research has focused on syntactic and lexico-syntactic ambiguity resolution, such as ...
  • Young Children's Understanding of Ongoing vs. Completion in Present and Perfective Participles 
    Matsuo, Ayumi (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "There has been a vast amount of cross-linguistic research on the morphology of the grammatical aspect especially with respect to the perfective-imperfective distinction, starting with Brown (1973) and de Villiers and de ...
  • Wide-scope Indefinites in English Child Language 
    Miller, Karen; Schmitt, Cristina (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "This paper is divided as follows: in section 2 we review the acquisition literature and point out a commonality among all of the experiments discussed, namely the fact that they all are trying to access covert partitive ...
  • On the Relation between Input Frequency and Acquisition Patterns from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective 
    Kupisch, Tanja (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Parameter setting approaches may be criticized for a number of reasons. One of them concerns the apparent optionality in acquisition stages. It has been observed for many grammatical domains, e.g. subject pronouns, finite ...
  • Acquisition of Voicing Alternations 
    Kerkhoff, Annemarie (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Morpho-phonological alternations are central to phonological theory, but little is known about how they are acquired. Acquiring alternations amounts to dealing with variation in a morpheme’s shape depending on its ...