The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition
Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp.
Adriana Belletti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adriana Belletti plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2018 Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery: The case of a-Topics Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 57–72 | Chapter
A parallel is highlighted between the linguistic behavior of young Italian-speaking children as emerged in recent experimental work (Belletti and Manetti 2017) with comparative data from other Romance languages such as Balearic Catalan and (previous stages of) Spanish in the domain of a-Topics. A… read more
2013 Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 309–324 | Article
By reviewing some recent experimental results in the domain of answering strategies in different languages and in the domain of Subject relatives and Object relatives in development (and adult parsing), the paper aims at illustrating the crucial contribution that experimental studies can provide on… read more
2007 Answering strategies: A view from acquisition Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 19–38 | Article
Different languages adopt different grammatical options - SV, VS orders, (reduced) clefts - to answer the same question on the identification of the subject. The answering strategies are detected through speakers’ grammaticality judgements and through acquisition data, specially adult L2… read more
2004 Subject inversion in L2 Italian EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4 (2004), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mitsuhiko Ota (eds.), pp. 95–118 | Article
2004 On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languages The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories, Prévost, Philippe and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 147–174 | Article
1988 Luigi Burzio. Italian syntax. A Government-Binding approach Studies in Language 12:1, pp. 255–260 | Squib