This study develops a single elicitation method to test the acquisition of third-person pronominal objects in 5-year-olds for 16 languages. This methodology allows us to compare the acquisition of pronominals in languages that lack object clitics (“pronoun languages”) with languages that employ clitics in the relevant context (“clitic languages”), thus establishing a robust cross-linguistic baseline in the domain of clitic and pronoun production for 5-year-olds. High rates of pronominal production are found in our results, indicating that children have the relevant pragmatic knowledge required to select a pronominal in the discourse setting involved in the experiment as well as the relevant morphosyntactic knowledge involved in the production of pronominals. It is legitimate to conclude from our data that a child who at age 5 is not able to produce any or few pronominals is a child at risk for language impairment. In this way, pronominal production can be taken as a developmental marke...r, provided that one takes into account certain cross-linguistic differences discussed in the article.
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Language Acquisition, 2016, 23, 1, 1-26
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Taylor & Francis
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Kleanthes K. Grohmann acknowledges financial support from the University of Cyprus for the Gen-CHILD Project (8037-61017).
The Danish study was supported by a grant from The Danish Agency for Science and Technology and Innovation to Kristine Jensen de López in support of the NASUD project Normal og Atypisk Sproglig Udvikling (Typical and Atypical Language Development) grant # 09-063957.
The Hebrew study was supported by the Lieselotte Adler Laboratory for Research on Child Development and by GIF grant 1113-97.4/2010.
The Polish study was partially supported by public funding from the Faculty of Psychology of Warsaw University (grant no BST 184724/09, awarded to Aneta Miękisz) and from the National Science Centre/Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grants no N N106 223538, awarded to Magdalena Smoczyńska and no 809/N-COST/2010/0, awarded to Ewa Haman)
María-José Ezeizabarrena acknowledges financial support from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación for the Spanish data (Grant FFI 2012-37884-C03-02) and from The Basque Government (IT-676-13).
TY - JOUR
AU - Varlokosta, Spyridoula
AU - Belletti, Adriana
AU - Costa, João
AU - Friedmann, Naama
AU - Gavarró, Anna
AU - Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
AU - Guasti, Maria Teresa
AU - Tuller, Laurice
AU - Lobo, Maria
AU - Anđelković, Darinka
AU - Argemí, Núria
AU - Avram, Larisa
AU - Berends, Sanne
AU - Brunetto, Valentina
AU - Delage, Hélène
AU - Ezeizabarrena, María-José
AU - Fattal, Iris
AU - Haman, Ewa
AU - van Hout, Angeliek
AU - Jensen de López, Kristine
AU - Katsos, Napoleon
AU - Kologranic, Lana
AU - Krstić, Nadezda
AU - Kuvac Kraljevic, Jelena
AU - Miękisz, Aneta
AU - Nerantzinia, Michaela
AU - Queraltóe, Clara
AU - Radic, Zeljana
AU - Ruiz, Sílvia
AU - Sauerland, Uli
AU - Sevcenco, Anca
AU - Smoczyńska, Magdalena
AU - Theodorou, Eleni
AU - van der Lely, Heather
AU - Veenstrau, Alma
AU - Weston, John
AU - Yachini, Maya
AU - Yatsushiro, Kazuko
PY - 2016
UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4602
AB - This study develops a single elicitation method to test the acquisition of third-person pronominal objects in 5-year-olds for 16 languages. This methodology allows us to compare the acquisition of pronominals in languages that lack object clitics (“pronoun languages”) with languages that employ clitics in the relevant context (“clitic languages”), thus establishing a robust cross-linguistic baseline in the domain of clitic and pronoun production for 5-year-olds. High rates of pronominal production are found in our results, indicating that children have the relevant pragmatic knowledge required to select a pronominal in the discourse setting involved in the experiment as well as the relevant morphosyntactic knowledge involved in the production of pronominals. It is legitimate to conclude from our data that a child who at age 5 is not able to produce any or few pronominals is a child at risk for language impairment. In this way, pronominal production can be taken as a developmental marker, provided that one takes into account certain cross-linguistic differences discussed in the article.
PB - Taylor & Francis
T2 - Language Acquisition
T1 - A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production
EP - 26
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IS - 1
SP - 1
VL - 23
DO - 10.1080/10489223.2015.1028628
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Varlokosta S, Belletti A, Costa J, Friedmann N, Gavarró A, Grohmann KK, Guasti MT, Tuller L, Lobo M, Anđelković D, Argemí N, Avram L, Berends S, Brunetto V, Delage H, Ezeizabarrena M, Fattal I, Haman E, van Hout A, Jensen de López K, Katsos N, Kologranic L, Krstić N, Kuvac Kraljevic J, Miękisz A, Nerantzinia M, Queraltóe C, Radic Z, Ruiz S, Sauerland U, Sevcenco A, Smoczyńska M, Theodorou E, van der Lely H, Veenstrau A, Weston J, Yachini M, Yatsushiro K. A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production. in Language Acquisition. 2016;23(1):1-26.
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Varlokosta, Spyridoula, Belletti, Adriana, Costa, João, Friedmann, Naama, Gavarró, Anna, Grohmann, Kleanthes K., Guasti, Maria Teresa, Tuller, Laurice, Lobo, Maria, Anđelković, Darinka, Argemí, Núria, Avram, Larisa, Berends, Sanne, Brunetto, Valentina, Delage, Hélène, Ezeizabarrena, María-José, Fattal, Iris, Haman, Ewa, van Hout, Angeliek, Jensen de López, Kristine, Katsos, Napoleon, Kologranic, Lana, Krstić, Nadezda, Kuvac Kraljevic, Jelena, Miękisz, Aneta, Nerantzinia, Michaela, Queraltóe, Clara, Radic, Zeljana, Ruiz, Sílvia, Sauerland, Uli, Sevcenco, Anca, Smoczyńska, Magdalena, Theodorou, Eleni, van der Lely, Heather, Veenstrau, Alma, Weston, John, Yachini, Maya, Yatsushiro, Kazuko, "A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production" in Language Acquisition, 23, no. 1 (2016):1-26,
https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2015.1028628 . .
