The dissociation between clitics and determiners in a group of Italian SLI children
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The present paper examines the elicited production of definite determiners, pronominal and reflexive clitics in a group of Italian children diagnosed for Selective Language Impairment. The present results argue against the Surface Hypothesis (Leonard, 1998; Leonard, 1989): Italian singular definite determiners and object pronominal clitics are phonologically identical, they are brief and non salient; nonetheless they are differently affected in the elicited production data gathered from the present experiments on a group of Italian SLI children.
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