Abstract In Bregagliotto and Mesolcinese, two Lombard Alpine dialects, feminine plural agreement/concord is marked by the formative - n , a reflex of third person verbal ending. Bregagliotto, triggers mesoclisis subject clitic in contexts inversion, whereas noun phrase behaves as second-position element marking concord. Mesolcinese exhibits gender agreement occurs on inflected verb whenever or ...

A visual-world eye-tracking experiment investigated the influence of order of mention and grammatical role on resolution of ambiguous pronouns in Finnish. According to the first-mention account, general cognitive structure-building processes make the firstmentioned noun phrase the preferred antecedent of an ambiguous pronoun. According to the subject-preference account, the preferred antecedent...

the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...

In recent years many scientific journals noticed an increasing number of submissions of plagiarized papers. The Editor-in-Chief of an important international journal, that receives very many submissions every year, recently privately wrote us “I had to reject on such basis over a dozen of submissions just this year”. The smaller size of our journal limits the number of such situations, but does...

The current study examines the neural correlates of 8-to-12-year-old children and adults producing inflected word forms, specifically regular vs. irregular past-tense forms in English, using a silent production paradigm. ERPs were time-locked to a visual cue for silent production of either a regular or irregular past-tense form or a 3rd person singular present tense form of a given verb (e.g., ...

Objectives. Previous research has shown that the acquisition of personal pronouns benefits from input with higher amounts stable reference. This paper aims to provide more evidence how is structured. The language under study Slovak, a pro-drop language, allowing extend verb marking. Participants and setting. longitudinal follows speech directed three children in two families age 1;9 3;0. Hypoth...

This study examines the extent to which word recognition is influenced by the information of grammatical gender given by the French singular definite article (le/la). More specifically, the focus is on auditory word recognition when words are in the final noun phrase in a Subject Verb Object (SVO) sentence. We compared the gender effect with that of the semantic information of the verb in order...