Theoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production

This article examines the phenomenon of object clitic omission in French. Previous research con- tains contradictory results depending on the source of the data: it seems that in spontaneous pro- duction children prefer DPs while in elicited production they prefer omissions. It is proposed that a co...

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Autor principal:	Mihaela Pirvulescu
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2006
Materias:	object clitic omission French spontaneous production elicited production Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a1d33fc70c46417fa538849b5f0dddf42021-11-27T10:48:52ZTheoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production10.5565/rev/catjl.701695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/a1d33fc70c46417fa538849b5f0dddf42006-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/70https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This article examines the phenomenon of object clitic omission in French. Previous research con- tains contradictory results depending on the source of the data: it seems that in spontaneous pro- duction children prefer DPs while in elicited production they prefer omissions. It is proposed that a common methodology be used across different modalities in measuring the rate of omissions, and that the notion of «illicit object omission» be dispensed with. The analysis of the proposed «clitic-contexts» reveals that the strategy favoured by children is omission of all kinds of lexical material in both spontaneous and elicited production. Moreover, it is shown that child behaviour is quantitatively different from the adult one. These findings have consequences on the status of null objects in child grammar: child grammar allows optional object deletion without clitic recov- erability, as opposed to adult grammar. Several theoretical approaches are evaluated in the light of the new findings.Mihaela PirvulescuUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleobject clitic omissionFrenchspontaneous productionelicited productionPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2006)
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description	This article examines the phenomenon of object clitic omission in French. Previous research con- tains contradictory results depending on the source of the data: it seems that in spontaneous pro- duction children prefer DPs while in elicited production they prefer omissions. It is proposed that a common methodology be used across different modalities in measuring the rate of omissions, and that the notion of «illicit object omission» be dispensed with. The analysis of the proposed «clitic-contexts» reveals that the strategy favoured by children is omission of all kinds of lexical material in both spontaneous and elicited production. Moreover, it is shown that child behaviour is quantitatively different from the adult one. These findings have consequences on the status of null objects in child grammar: child grammar allows optional object deletion without clitic recov- erability, as opposed to adult grammar. Several theoretical approaches are evaluated in the light of the new findings.
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title	Theoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production
title_short	Theoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production
title_full	Theoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production
title_fullStr	Theoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production
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Theoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production

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