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- Kupisch, Tanja, et al.
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Article acquisition in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish
- 2009
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Ingår i: Little Words. - Washington : Georgetown University Press. - 9781589012547 ; , s. 223-235
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Article omission is a well-documented phenomenon in early child speech. Interestingly, children differ in terms of how extensively they omit articles depending on their age and what language(s) they are exposed to. Different accounts have been proposed to account for this cross-linguistic variation. One of the most widely discussed models is the Nominal Mapping Parameter (NMP), originally proposed in Chierchia (1998), which relates variation in child language to the syntactic and semantic properties of noun phrases across languages (e.g. Chierchia, Guasti and Gualmini 1999, Guasti and Gavarró 2003, Guasti et al. 2004). Other influential accounts of determiner omission have been formulated in prosody-oriented research (e.g. Gerken 1991, 1994, Lleó 1998, 2001, Lleó and Demuth 1999, Roark and Demuth 2000, Demuth et al., in press). So far, no common agreement has been reached.This paper presents a study on article acquisition in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish, where article use is subject to similar syntactic and semantic conditions. Hence, the NMP predicts similar acquisition patterns. In terms of their metrical structure, noun phrases in these languages differ considerably. Accordingly, different acquisition patterns are expected.
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- Kupisch, Tanja, et al.
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Article acquisition in German, English, Norwegian and Swedish
- 2009
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Ingår i: Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition. - 0072-1212. - 9781589015975 ; , s. 223-235
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- Kupisch, Tanja, et al.
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Determiner use in Italian Swedish and Italian German children: Do Swedish and German represent the same parameter setting?
- 2007
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this article we compare the acquisition of determiners in bilingual children acquiring Italian simultaneously with German or Swedish. We are concerned with cross-linguistic differences in the rate of acquisition and we discuss in particular the Nominal Mapping Parameter, a model according to which the syntax-semantics interface is crucial in acquisition and which predicts similar developmental patterns for children acquiring a Germanic language. We show that Swedish determiners are acquired more easily than German determiners, which implies that predictions for developmental patterns should not be based on syntactic factors alone, but must make reference to typological differences in morphology and phonology. Furthermore, we show that the acquisition of Italian determiners is affected positively by the simultaneous acquisition of Swedish but that no such effect arises when Italian is acquired simultaneously with German.
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- White, Lydia, et al.
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Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English
- 2009
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Ingår i: BUCLD 33: Proceedings of the 33rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. - 9781574730944 ; , s. 622-633
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