Psycholinguistic research investigating production and comprehension of referring expressions has shown that successful reference implies choosing/interpreting a form among a set of referring expressions (e.g., Arnold 2010 for a review). Native speakers are usually very fast and efficient in making these decisions in order to keep up with the flow of normal conversation, requiring them to compr...

This paper investigates three linguistic features—wawation, the 1CS genitive clitic pronoun, and relative pronoun—that are shared between ancient epigraphic forms of Arabic modern dialects, to exclusion Classical Arabic. I suggest that these features represent earliest layer dialects.

things (substances, events, abstractions); Corbett (2000, chap. 3) reviewed the relevant evidence regarding linguistic number. Because less imageable referents have less discernible internal boundaries, they may tend to be construed as units even when they are potentially ambiguous in notional number (Eberhard, 1999). Ambiguities in notional number result from conflicts in valuation that can co...

We found o direct relationship between voriotion in informants’ grommoticality intuitions about pronoun coreference and variation in the same informants’ use of a clause segmentation strategy during sentence perception. It hos been proproposed that ‘c-command’, a structural principle defined in terms of constituent dominance relations, constrains within-sentence coreference between pronouns and...

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Pronoun comprehension can present challenges for young bilingual monolingual children. The current study aimed to assess cross-linguistic influence (CLI) pronoun in early childhood. Several studies have demonstrated the role of overlap across languages its impact on language development. investigates acquisition another containing third-person pro...

Many comprehension studies have shown that children as late as age 6 ; 6 misinterpret object pronouns as co-referring with the referential subject about half the time. A recent review of earlier experiments testing children's interpretation of object pronouns in sentences with quantified subjects (Elbourne, 2005) also suggests that there is a 'Pronoun Interpretation Problem'. In contrast, two e...

in german, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees withtheir head noun in gender and number. however, relative clauses in farsi arealways introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. this difference could be iranianand german learners when learning languages, german and farsi to confrontdifficulties. the present study focuses on relativisation strategies based ontypological ana...