acquisition of intensifiers versus reflexive pronouns

Non-reflexive Non-argumental Clitic Pronouns of Spanish

Chinese Reflexive Ziji in Second Language Acquisition

Children's Acquisition of Demonstrative Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese

This paper investigates children’s comprehension and production of demonstrative pronouns (DPs), ‘zhege’ (this) and ‘nage’ (that), in Mandarin Chinese. Subjects are children of ages three, four, five and six. Based on the results of the present experiment, children’s developmental stages and the corresponding age grading are provided. Also, the present study incorporates a physical clue into th...

Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Adult Persian Learners: Focus on Resumptive Pronouns

Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language (L2) acquisition after the critical period. In this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from Persian speaking learners of English as an L2 on the status of resumptive pronouns (RPs) as uniterpretable features. Unlike English which does not allow RPs, Persian shows various b...

The Acquisition of Clitic Pronouns in L2 European Portuguese