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  • Adult L2 Acquisition of Italian Clitic Pronouns and 'Subject Inversion'/VS Structures 
    Leonini, Chiara; Belletti, Adriana (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In this paper we will be primarily concerned with the acquisition of object clitic pronouns by a group of adult L2 learners of Italian with different L1s. The ultimate aim of our research is the adult L2 acquisition of ...
  • Acquisition of Multiple Case Marking in Korean 
    Kang, Bosook (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "This study investigates the nature of Nominative case in Korean, focusing on multiple Nom constructions, a phenomenon which has been the main source for differing views on Nom case. The study evaluates two opposing syntactic ...
  • Do H*L and L*H accents have similar target positions? 
    Rietveld, Toni; Kerkhoff, Joop (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Targets of pitch accents have generally been defined on the basis of production data. Obviously, most of the research on tonal targets has focussed on peaks associated with H*L accents as these are very well identifiable, ...
  • The implicit prosody of Jabberwocky and the relative clause attachment riddle 
    Wijnen, Frank (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    This contribution reports on three sentence processing experiments involving structurally ambiguous Jabberwocky strings. The items are complex NPs, in which a relative clause can be attached to either of two nominal heads ...
  • Expanding Phonetics 
    Pols, Louis C.W. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    The optimistic title of my contribution to this Festschrift is supposed to underline the substantial growth in Phonetic Sciences as for instance reflected by comparing the program size and the number of participants of ...
  • What is the Just Noticeable Difference for tempo in speech? 
    Quené, Hugo (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Tempo (speaking rate) varies both between and within speakers. Such variations in tempo are easily noticeable. But what is the just noticeable difference for tempo in speech? As a first approximation, between-speaker tempo ...
  • Phonetics and Phonology: then, and then, and now 
    Ohala, John J. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Phonetics attempts to describe and understand how speech is produced and perceived; phonology attempts to understand the patterning — in general, the behavior — of speech sounds in particular languages and in all languages. ...
  • Segmental anchoring of pitch movements: autosegmental phonology or speech production? 
    Ladd, D. R. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Arvaniti, Ladd & Mennen (1998) reported a phenomenon of “segmental anchoring”: the beginning and end of a pitch movement are anchored to specific locations in segmental structure, while the slope and duration of the pitch ...
  • Proceedings of GALA 2003 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) held at Utrecht University 4-6 September 2003. Volume 1 
    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 that ...
  • The Learnability of Syntactic Categories 
    Kampen, Jacqueline van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "It is a common position in generative acquisition studies to accept Chomsky's view that first language acquisition is determined by a set of innate grammatical a priories. The development of the child would be more a ...
  • Object Raising and Cliticization in Serbo-Croatian Child Language 
    Ilic, Tatjana; Ud Deen, Kamil (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "The Root Infinitive (RI) stage is a phenomenon widely attested in the early acquisition of many languages, such as Dutch, French, German, etc."
  • Article Omission: across Child Languages and across Special Registers 
    Teresa Guasti, Maria; Lange, Joke de; Gavarró, Anna; Caprin, Claudia (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In this paper, we look at two new languages, Catalan and Dutch, beside Italian, and try to establish which factors influence children’s omission of articles. The paper starts with a description of the system of articles ...
  • Syntax and its Interfaces in L2 Grammars - Situating L1 effects 
    Hopp, Holger (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Studies on the first language (L1) acquisition of word order optionality (e.g. Krämer 2000) report a developmental disjunction between syntactic and interpretive knowledge. We find suggestive evidence for a similar ...
  • Discourse Integration and the Acquisition of Aspect in Polish 
    Hout, Angeliek van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Establishing the temporal reference of events and ituations depends not only on the semantics of tense and aspect morphology, but also on discourse effects as defined by interface rules between semantics and discourse. ...
  • Optional Omissions in an Optionally Null Subject Language 
    Gordishevsky, Galina; Avrutin, Sergey (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In this paper we report the results of a study investigating the phenomenon of subject and direct object omissions in child Russian. While omissions have been extensively studied in a number of other languages, they all ...
  • The Vowel [i] in the Acquisition of European Portuguese 
    João Freitas, M. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Research on the acquisition of L1 phonology in the last decades has been primarily concerned with featural architecture of segments and with prosodic constituency; reports on acquisition of phonological processes and ...
  • On the Scope of Negation : More evidence for early parameter setting 
    Gilkerson, Jill; Hyams, Nina; Curtiss, Susan (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In a seminal study of the acquisition of negation by English-speaking children, Klima and Bellugi (1966) proposed that children go through an initial stage in which sentential negation is ‘external’. According to this ...
  • If Everybody Knows, then Every Child Knows 
    Crain, Stephen; Meroni, Luisa; Minai, Utako (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Here’s a recipe for one kind of argument from the poverty of the stimulus. To start, present an array of linguistic facts to be explained. Begin with a basic observation about form and/or meaning in some language (or, ...
  • Subject Agreement, Object Agreement and Specificity in Swahili 
    Ud Deen, Kamil (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Differences between child and adult language are usually explained in one of two ways. The first is to assume that the child’s knowledge of a particular area of language is fundamentally different from that of the adult. ...
  • Acquiring Number Specification on L2 Spanish Quantifiers : Evidence against the Rich Agreement Hypothesis 
    Español-Echevarría, Manuel; Prévost, Philippe (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "There is a debate in second language (L2) acquisition on the relationship between the acquisition of overt morphology and the acquisition of underlying morphosyntactic properties, such as functional categories, features, ...