Thierry Nazzi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thierry Nazzi plays a role.
Articles
2023 A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children: Insights from comprehension and production Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
The present multidimensional study investigates the acquisition of pronominal subject-verb dependencies in Standard Haitian Creole (HC). A corpus analysis confirms that HC subject pronouns are phonological clitics in the target grammar and that their reduction is optional and unpredictable. The… read more
2019 The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 7–33 | Chapter
Monolingual English 4-year-olds were administered a Subject-Verb agreement comprehension task that included stimuli such as the boys spinø versus the boyø spins (…/freely/in the hall). They were categorized as users of Mainstream American English (MAE) (N = 8), Some Variation (N = 9) and Strong… read more
2018 Chapter 3. Early sensitivity and acquisition of prosodic patterns at the lexical level The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 37–57 | Chapter
This chapter reviews sensitivity to prosodic information at the lexical level during the first year of life, considering crosslinguistic data that bear on both monolingual and bilingual acquisition. First, we discuss infants’ early ability to discriminate lexical stress, and how this sensitivity… read more
2008 3. Behavioral and electrophysiological exploration of early word segmentation in French: Distinguishing the syllabic and lexical levels. Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour, Friederici, Angela D. and Guillaume Thierry (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Article