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Gavarro, Anna; Torrens, Vicenc; Wexler, Ken – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
The literature generally assumes that object clitic omission is equally allowed in all child languages. In this paper we challenge this claim by means of an elicitation experiment carried out with children acquiring two closely related languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our results show that while omission is high in young Catalan-speaking children,…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Grammar, Spanish, Child Language
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Guasti, Maria Teresa; Gavarro, Anna; de Lange, Joke; Caprin, Claudia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
Article omission is known to be a feature of early grammar, although it does not affect all child languages to the same extent. In this article we analyze the production of articles by 12 children, 4 speakers of Catalan, 4 speakers of Italian, and 4 speakers of Dutch. We consider the results in the light of (i) the adult input the children are…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages)
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Gavarro, Anna – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
Reports on bilingual acquisition of syntax. Draws on data from a bilingual English-Dutch child whose word order patterns testify to the fact that movement never occurs beyond the target and when deviant word orders are attested they result from lack of raising. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Dutch, English