The English definite and indefinite articles (also known as determiners) are a useful index of early morphosyntactic productivity in children’s speech, and give evidence about children’s representation of syntactic abstractions. Previous work (i.e. Pine & Lieven, 1997) used a measure of productivity that shows a strong sensitivity to sample size and does not account for the relationship between...

In gender-marking languages, the gender of the noun determines the form of the preceding article. In this study, we examined whether French-learning toddlers use gender-marking information on determiners to recognize words. In a split-screen preferential looking experiment, 25-month-olds were presented with picture pairs that referred to nouns with either the same or different genders. The targ...

The main objective of this study is to show the willingness citizens act through prism opportunities offered by participation at local level. Citizens’ activity in public life core democracy. Their engagement may assume various forms, among which most common form elections. When it comes direct democracy, referendums widespread. However, an element cognitively equally important as above ones, r...

Picture-word interference experiments conducted with Italian speakers investigated how determiners are selected in noun phrase (NP) production. Determiner production involves the selection of a noun's syntactic features (mass or count, gender), which specify the type of determiner to be selected, and the subsequent selection of a particular phonological form (e.g., the/a in English). The resear...

There is a well known tradition in the literature on definite Determiner Phrases (DPs) that concentrates on the asymmetries in the distribution and the anaphoric properties of determiners such as articles and demonstratives. A huge amount of work on the topic has been done on French by linguists like Kleiber, Corblin, Marandin, Maes, Apothéloz, Reichler-Béguelin or De Mulder, and on English by ...

Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, gender third-person clitics their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in first language, or one of languages. We present a study that explores the differences determiner noun antecedents doubled DPs among Shipibo-Spanish speakers. The oral production data were elicited from 17 adult bilinguals using ...

This approach has been developed in the context of the E U R O T R A machine translation (MT) project and thus has been d e s i g n e d w i t h r e spec t to a s y n t a x based s t r a t i f i c a t i o n a l translation process? We assume that in a semantic representation determiners are deleted and that their semantic funct ion which is represented by semantic features is percolated into the...