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Effects of language dominance and time of formal exposure to the language on th...
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThis study investigates the effects of two external linguistic variables – language dominance and time of formal exposure – on the production and placement of clitic pronouns of Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks and a parental sociolinguistic questionnaire, we show that language dominance plays a role in rates of omission and rates of clitic production. On the other hand,...
Omission and placement of clitics by Portuguese-French bilingual children
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThis study investigates clitic omission and clitic placement in Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks, we show that the global pattern of development is very similar to the one found in monolingual acquisition: bilingual children are sensitive to the type of clitic (more omission in accusative contexts than in reflexive contexts), syntactic context (higher rates of pronoun pr...
Omissão e colocação de clíticos por crianças bilingues Português-Francês
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThis study investigates clitic omission and clitic placement in Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks, we show that the global pattern of development is very similar to the one found in monolingual acquisition: bilingual children are sensitive to the type of clitic (more omission in accusative contexts than in reflexive contexts), syntactic context (higher rates of pronoun pr...