Search Results - "Syntax/discourse interface"

Discourse-related expletives: Challenges and opportunities by Booth, Hannah, Groothuis, Kim A.

“…Recent research has highlighted the existence of expletive(-like) elements in various languages that are related to discourse, serving as fillers for…”
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WHICH FACTORS DETERMINE THE CHOICE OF REFERENTIAL EXPRESSIONS IN L2 ENGLISH DISCOURSE? by Quesada, Teresa, Lozano, Cristóbal

“…Referential expressions (REs) have been investigated in L2 English but to date there is no single study that systematically and simultaneously analyzes the…”
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Focus in bilingual Spanish by Bradley Hoot

“…Bilingual grammars differ systematically from those of monolinguals, but not all areas are affected equally. One linguistic feature that has been claimed to be…”
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Language Interfaces in Adult Heritage Language Acquisition: A Study on Encoding of Nominal Reference in Mandarin Chinese as a Heritage Language by Jin, Jing, Ke, Sihui Echo, Lee, John Chi-Kin

“…According to the Interface Hypothesis in the field of bilingualism, the interface connecting a linguistic module with a language-external domain (e.g.,…”
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Crosslinguistic Interference in Simultaneous Acquisition of Turkish and Italian by Ergün, Anna Lia Proietti

“…This study compared the acceptability judgment task (AJT) and translation task (TT) in 10 simultaneous Turkish–Italian bilinguals with age-matched Turkish and…”
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Input effects across domains: The case of Greek subjects in child heritage language by Daskalaki, Evangelia, Chondrogianni, Vasiliki, Blom, Elma, Argyri, Froso, Paradis, Johanne

“…A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally of bilingual acquisition, is whether all linguistic domains are…”
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L2 acquisition of Wh-interrogatives at the syntax-discourse interface: interface hypothesis again [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Shormani, Mohammed

“…This study sets out to answer one major question: do linguistic phenomena relating to syntax-discourse interface constitute difficulty for Yemeni learners of…”
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Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals by Ionin, Tania, Luchkina, Tatiana, Goldshtein, Maria

“…This article reports on two experiments that examine the computation of contrastive focus in Russian on the part of adult English-dominant heritage speakers…”
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Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences by Kim, Hyunwoo, Park, Sun Hee

“…It remains an open question whether second language (L2) learners can process linguistic properties at the syntax–discourse interface. This study examines this…”
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Second language acquisition at the interfaces by White, Lydia

“…In recent research on L2 acquisition, there has been considerable emphasis on interfaces between the linguistic system and grammar external components, such as…”
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Focus in Dutch reading: an eye-tracking experiment with heritage speakers of Turkish by van Rijswijk, Remy, Muntendam, Antje, Dijkstra, Ton

“…This study examines whether heritage speakers of Turkish in the Netherlands interpret focus in written Dutch sentences differently from L1 speakers of Dutch…”
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Syntax meets discourse: Locative and deictic (directional) inversion in English by Ojea, Ana

“…This paper offers a formal analysis of three constructions in English: , and . These constructions constitute thetic statements with a locative intentional…”
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The syntax of negative imperatives in Yemeni Arabic: A phase approach by Shormani, Mohammed Q, Alhussen, Fahad Saud

“…Negative imperatives in general have received less research compared to positive imperatives cross-linguistically, which is perhaps due to their complex…”
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Focus in bilingual Spanish: A state of the science review by Hoot, Bradley

“…Bilingual grammars differ systematically from those of monolinguals, but not all areas are affected equally. One linguistic feature that has been claimed to be…”
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Syntax and Discourse in Near-Native French: Clefts and Focus by Donaldson, Bryan

“…This study examines aspects of the syntax‐discourse interface in near‐native French. Two cleft structures—c’est clefts and avoir clefts—are examined in…”
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The Development of Anaphora Resolution at the Syntax-Discourse Interface: Pronominal Subjects in Greek Learners of Spanish by Lozano, Cristóbal

“…This study explores the development of anaphora resolution (AR) in late sequential bilinguals, namely, adult Greek learners of Spanish at three proficiency…”
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The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters by Listanti, Andrea, Torregrossa, Jacopo

“…Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax–discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the…”
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The acquisition of Focus in L2 Spanish by Leal, Tania, Destruel, Emilie, Hoot, Bradley

“…This paper examines the strategies used by speakers of Spanish as a second language (L2) for marking Information Focus, a phenomenon found at the…”
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Frequency at the syntax–discourse interface: A bidirectional study on fronting options in L1/L2 German and L1/L2 English by Hopp, Holger, Bail, Joseph, Jackson, Carrie N.

“…The present study investigates whether second language (L2) speakers are sensitive to the information-structural constraints and frequency distributions at the…”
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Fossilization of English as an L2 non-native constructions at the syntax-discourse interface in Romance L1 speakers by Marciano Escutia López

“…This study examines and compares the English as a foreign language production of two groups of speakers with respect to certain manifestations of the…”
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