Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian

This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate. The results reported for the acquisition of indirect object clitics are particularly significant in that, for the first ti...

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Autores principales:	Maria Babyonyshev, Stefania Marin
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2006
Materias:	first language acquisition Romance languages Romanian accusative clitics dative clitics cross-linguistic variation Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ec0480681d2f492cbc274b296633f44a2021-11-27T10:48:51ZAcquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian10.5565/rev/catjl.711695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/ec0480681d2f492cbc274b296633f44a2006-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/71https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate. The results reported for the acquisition of indirect object clitics are particularly significant in that, for the first time, it is possible to demonstrate the similarity between the acquisition of direct and indirect object clitics in Romanian and, arguably, for other languages that pattern with Romanian in the relevant respects. Furthermore, our findings receive a natural explanation if it is assumed that two conditions must be met for children to produce clitics. First, children’s grammars must not be constrained by any relevant grammatical constraints, such as the Unique Checking Constraint (Wexler 1998, 2003). Second, children must be able to produce utterances of the length required by the clitic constructions. (137words)Maria BabyonyshevStefania MarinUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlefirst language acquisitionRomance languagesRomanianaccusative cliticsdative cliticscross-linguistic variationPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2006)
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topic	first language acquisition Romance languages Romanian accusative clitics dative clitics cross-linguistic variation Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	first language acquisition Romance languages Romanian accusative clitics dative clitics cross-linguistic variation Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Maria Babyonyshev Stefania Marin Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian
description	This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate. The results reported for the acquisition of indirect object clitics are particularly significant in that, for the first time, it is possible to demonstrate the similarity between the acquisition of direct and indirect object clitics in Romanian and, arguably, for other languages that pattern with Romanian in the relevant respects. Furthermore, our findings receive a natural explanation if it is assumed that two conditions must be met for children to produce clitics. First, children’s grammars must not be constrained by any relevant grammatical constraints, such as the Unique Checking Constraint (Wexler 1998, 2003). Second, children must be able to produce utterances of the length required by the clitic constructions. (137words)
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author	Maria Babyonyshev Stefania Marin
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title	Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian
title_short	Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian
title_full	Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian
title_fullStr	Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian
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publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian

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