Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique

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Titre Person and intervention effects in the acquisition of Romanian clitics
Conférencier Larissa Avram (U. Bucarest)
Date mardi 17 mai 2011
Heure 12h15
Salle L208 (Bâtiment Candolle)
Description

The talk addresses syntactic aspects of the production of Accusative clitics in Romanian. An analysis of both longitudinal and experimental data reveals two developmental asymmetries: (i) reflexive clitics are acquired earlier than non-reflexive clitics; (ii) 1st/2nd person non-reflexive clitics are acquired faster than 3rd person non-reflexive clitics. The focus is on the Person developmental asymmetry. I argue that the data can be accounted for in terms of the different morpho-syntactic status of the two types of clitics in conjunction with an approach to feature intervention effects rooted in Rizzi’s Relativized Minimality (1990).

   
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