Null subject comprehension and production revisited: a look at English and Italian.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000588
Abstract: This study will investigate how children acquire the option to drop the subject of a sentence, or null subjects (e.g., "Tickles me" instead of "He tickles me"). In languages that do not permit null subjects,… read more here.
Keywords: null subjects; comprehension production; language; null subject ... See more keywords
Null Subject Occurrence in Monolingual Spanish SLI: A Discriminant Function Analysis
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DOI: 10.3390/languages3020017
Abstract: Background: Child Spanish-speakers appear to use more null subjects than do adults. Null subject use, like the use of tense marking, is sensitive to discourse-pragmatics. Because tense marking has been used to identify child Spanish-speakers… read more here.
Keywords: discriminant function; null subject; subject occurrence; sli ... See more keywords