Article Omission: across Child Languages and across Special Registers

Abstract

"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 and of the syntax/semantics of nouns in the three languages. Then, it presents the investigation of the speech of 9 children (3 for each language). It ends with a discussion of the results"