A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production

Spyridoula Varlokosta; Adriana Belletti; João Costa; Naama Friedmann; Anna Gavarro; Kleanthes K. Grohmann; Maria Teresa Guasti; Laurice Tuller; Maria Lobo; Darinka Anđelković; Núria Argemí; Larisa Avram; Sanne Berends; Valentina Brunetto; Hélène Delage; María-José Ezeizabarrena; Iris Fattal; Ewa Hamann; Angeliek van Hout; Kristine Jensen de Lopez; Napoleon Katsos; Lana Kologranic; Nadezda Krstić; Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic; Aneta Miękisz; Michaela Nerantzini; Clara Queraltó; Zeljana Radic; Sílvia Ruiz; Uli Sauerland; Anca Sevcenco; Magdalena Smoczynska; Eleni Theodorou; Heather van der Lely; Aaltje Veenstra; John Weston; Maya Yachini; Kazuko Yatsushiro

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A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production

Spyridoula Varlokosta, Adriana Belletti, João Costa, Naama Friedmann, Anna Gavarro, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Teresa Guasti, Laurice Tuller, Maria Lobo, Darinka Anđelković, Núria Argemí, Larisa Avram, Sanne Berends, Valentina Brunetto, Hélène Delage, María-José Ezeizabarrena, Iris Fattal, Ewa Hamann, Angeliek van Hout, Kristine Jensen de LopezNapoleon Katsos, Lana Kologranic, Nadezda Krstić, Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic, Aneta Miękisz, Michaela Nerantzini, Clara Queraltó, Zeljana Radic, Sílvia Ruiz, Uli Sauerland, Anca Sevcenco, Magdalena Smoczynska, Eleni Theodorou, Heather van der Lely, Aaltje Veenstra, John Weston, Maya Yachini, Kazuko Yatsushiro

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Abstract

This study develops a single elicitation method to test the acquisition of
third-person pronominal objects in 5-year-olds for 16 languages. This methodology allows us to compare the acquisition of pronominals in languages
that lack object clitics (“pronoun languages”) with languages that employ
clitics in the relevant context (“clitic languages”), thus establishing a robust
cross-linguistic baseline in the domain of clitic and pronoun production for
5-year-olds. High rates of pronominal production are found in our results,
indicating that children have the relevant pragmatic knowledge required to
select a pronominal in the discourse setting involved in the experiment as
well as the relevant morphosyntactic knowledge involved in the production
of pronominals. It is legitimate to conclude from our data that a child who
at age 5 is not able to produce any or few pronominals is a child at risk for
language impairment. In this way, pronominal production can be taken as a
developmental marker, provided that one takes into account certain crosslinguistic differences discussed in the article.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-26
Number of pages	26
Journal	Language Acquisition
Volume	23
Issue number	1
Early online date	28-May-2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2015.1028628
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Varlokosta, S., Belletti, A., Costa, J., Friedmann, N., Gavarro, A., Grohmann, K. K., Guasti, M. T., Tuller, L., Lobo, M., Anđelković, D., Argemí, N., Avram, L., Berends, S., Brunetto, V., Delage, H., Ezeizabarrena, M.-J., Fattal, I., Hamann, E., van Hout, A., ... Yatsushiro, K. (2016). A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production. Language Acquisition, 23(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2015.1028628

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