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The Development of Anaphora Resolution at the Syntax-Discourse Interface: Pronominal Subjects in Greek Learners of Spanish by Lozano, Cristóbal

“… (intermediate, lower advanced, upper advanced). The use of an overt/null pronominal subject anaphor is investigated in three discourse contexts: topic-continuity…”
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Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars by Ivanova-Sullivan, Tanya

“…InTheoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars,Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan investigates comprehension and production of anaphoric dependencies in heritage Russian…”
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Person and the syntax–discourse interface: An eye-tracking study of agreement by Mancini, Simona, Molinaro, Nicola, Davidson, Doug J., Avilés, Alberto, Carreiras, Manuel

“…•We compared unagreement, standard agreement, null-subject and incorrect sentences.•One grammatical judgment task and three eye-tracking experiments were used…”
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Gradient optionality in L2 acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface: Evidence from inversion in advanced and near-native English by Teixeira, Joana

“…•The syntax-discourse interface is an area of permanent optionality in L2 acquisition…”
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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 expression of the subject in discourse…”
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Discourse-related expletives: Challenges and opportunities by Booth, Hannah, Groothuis, Kim A.

“…–discourse interface, although work in this area to date has mainly focused on the phenomenon in individual varieties…”
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Information structure : the syntax-discourse interface by Erteschik-Shir, Nomi

“…This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. It…”
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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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Input effects across domains: The case of Greek subjects in child heritage language by Daskalaki, Evangelia, Chondrogianni, Vasiliki, Blom, Elma, Argyri, Froso, Paradis, Johanne

“…). To test this hypothesis, we examined subject realization and placement in Greek–English bilingual children learning Greek as a heritage language in North America…”
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Crosslinguistic Interference in Simultaneous Acquisition of Turkish and Italian by Ergün, Anna Lia Proietti

“… The position of subjects occurring with unaccusative verbs was investigated as the linguistic property…”
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Acquisition of Structures at Syntax-Discourse Interface: Post-Verbal Subjects in L2 English by Mitkovska, Liljana, Bužarovska, Eleni, Stojanovska-Ilievska, Nataša

“…The present study explores the acceptability of postverbal subjects by intermediate andadvanced L2 English learners with L1 Macedonian, a pro-drop Slavic language with richverbal morphology…”
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The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters by Listanti, Andrea, Torregrossa, Jacopo

“…–discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax…”
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Syntax meets discourse: Locative and deictic (directional) inversion in English by Ojea, Ana

“… I propose that they all obtain from a language particular mechanism which involves a functional category LocP that adjusts the computational requirement to have a preverbal subject to the intentional…”
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The syntax of negative imperatives in Yemeni Arabic: A phase approach by Shormani, Mohammed Q, Alhussen, Fahad Saud

“…–discourse interface amalgamated with phase approach to the analysis of these structures. Syntactically, negative imperative structures in YA are bipartite in nature, consisting of the preverbal negative particle lā…”
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The acquisition of Focus in L2 Spanish by Leal, Tania, Destruel, Emilie, Hoot, Bradley

“…) for marking Information Focus, a phenomenon found at the syntax–discourse interface. Sorace and colleagues have proposed the Interface Hypothesis, according to which the syntax…”
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From Corpora to Experiments: Methodological Triangulation in the Study of Word Order at the Interfaces in Adult Late Bilinguals (L2 learners) by Mendikoetxea, Amaya, Lozano, Cristóbal

“… should be) triangulated by reporting on a corpus study (Lozano and Mendikoetxea in Biling Lang Cognit 13(4):475–497, 2010 ) and a new follow-up offline experiment investigating Subject…”
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A revisit to the [Num-Cl-Modifier- de -N]/ [Modifier- de -Num-Cl‑N] variation in Mandarin Chinese by Jin, Jing

“… It is observed that this variation represents a complex interface phenomenon in the nominal domain, which is subject to the semantic condition concerning the i(ndividual)-level/​s(tage…”
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Native language attrition and developmental instability at the syntax-discourse interface: Data, interpretations and methods by SORACE, ANTONELLA

“…Montrul's study is an important contribution to a recently emerged research approach to the study of bilingualism and languages in contact, characterized by…”
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Pronoun processing in Broca's aphasia: Discourse-syntax effects in ambiguous anaphora resolution by Peristeri, E., Tsimpli, I. M.

“…Background: The interpretation of ambiguous subject pronouns in a null subject language, like Greek, requires that one possesses grammatical knowledge of the two subject pronominal forms, i.e…”
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Changes at the syntax-discourse interface by Eide, Kristine

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