Object Clitic Omission: Two Language Types

Gavarró, Anna; García, Vicenç Torrens i; Wexler, Kenneth

doi:10.1080/10489223.2010.509262

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“…Gavarrò (2012) contends that low rates of DO clitic production in Spanish children with SLI are experimental artifacts dependent on the elicitation methods used in the tasks that might have allowed children to produce sentences not containing a DO clitic. Data concerning young TD Spanish speakers are also controversial (Castilla & Pérez-Leroux, 2010;Castilla, Pérez-Leroux, & Eriks-Brophy, 2008;Fujino & Sano, 2002;Gavarró, Torrens, & Wexler, 2010;Wexler, Gavarró, & Torrens, 2004). Given these contrasting results, further investigation is in order to tease apart differences due to methodological aspects of the study 2 from linguistic differences found in languages with participle agreement and in languages without it.…”

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Failure to produce direct object clitic pronouns as a clinical marker of SLI in school-aged Italian speaking children

Arosio

Branchini

Barbieri

et al. 2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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We administrated a clitic elicitation task to 16 school-aged Italian speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) in order to investigated whether the failure to produce third person direct object clitics (DO clitics) is a persistent clinical marker of SLI in Italian; we examined whether this failure also extends to reflexive clitics. Results show that Italian children with SLI aged 6 to 9;11 years fail to produce DO clitics and tend to produce a lexical noun introduced by a determiner (full DP) in the argument postverbal position instead of the pronoun; the production of reflexive clitics is preserved in the same population. Receiver operating characteristic curve analyses and computation of likelihood ratios show that the failure to produce DO clitics is a persistent good clinical marker of SLI in Italian. We argue that DO clitic production requires complex morphosyntactic operations that are hardly achieved by children with SLI; our findings are compatible with theories considering SLI as a deficit of processing complex linguistic relations.

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Failure to produce direct object clitic pronouns as a clinical marker of SLI in school-aged Italian speaking children

Arosio

Branchini

Barbieri

et al. 2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…mangia la torta [SW W SW], ''s/he eats the cake'' vs. fa la torta [S W SW] ''s/he does the cake'') (Crisma & Tomasutti, 2000), Caprin and Guasti (2009) have shown that position in the utterance also plays a role in syllable deletion: omission was higher when articles were in a subject position of verbal utterances or in front of nouns uttered in isolation than in an object position of verbal utterances, independently of the syllabic structure of the verbs. Finally, based on the theoretical framework of Wexler (1998Wexler ( , 2003, research in other languages such as Catalan (Gavarrò, Torrens, & Wexler, 2010) and French (Jakubowicz, Lea, Catherine, & Christophe-Loic, 1998) has shown how the prosodic feature of a syllable is not sufficient to determine the omission of the morpheme.…”

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Non-word repetition: The relationship between weak syllables and the omission of grammatical morphemes in children with specific language impairment

Dispaldro

2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Non-word (NW) repetition in children with specific language impairment (SLI) is a skill related to, but genetically separate from, grammatical ability. Prosodic structure of the syllables may bridge the gap between these two abilities. A NW repetition task was compared in a group of 15 preschool Italian children with SLI (ranged in age from 3;11 to 5;8) and 15 younger typically developing children (aged from 2;11 to 3;7) matched for mean length of utterance (TD-MLU). Grammatical ability was tested through a probe for direct-object clitic pronouns which is one of the most useful clinical markers in the Italian language. In NW repetition, children with SLI deleted more syllables than the TD-MLU children. The omission of weak syllables in a pre-stress position was a significant predictor of the omission of clitic pronouns. The present study shows that the link between grammar and NW is due to a prosodic characteristic that is more universally challenging in children with SLI.

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“…In other languages, such as (Standard Modern) Greek (Tsakali & Wexler 2003), Romanian (Babyonyshev & Marin 2006), Serbo-Croatian (Ilic & Deen 2004), and possibly Spanish (Wexler, Gavarró & Torrens 2004;Gavarró, Torrens & Wexler 2010), children were found not to omit clitics from age 2, but see the following discussion. (ii) Children tend to place their clitics in the correct position from the onset of clitic production.…”

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“…Broadly speaking, clitic omission up to at least 4 or 5 years is found to different extents for Catalan (Wexler, Gavarró & Torrens 2004;Gavarró, Torrens & Wexler 2010), (European) Portuguese (Costa & Lobo 2006), French (Jakubowicz et al 1996;Hamann, Rizzi & Frauenfelder 1996;Jakubowicz & Rigaut 2000), Italian (Schaeffer 1997), and Spanish (Fujino & Sano 2002), as well as bilingual Spanish in contact with Basque (Ezeizabarrena 1996;Larrañaga 2000;Larrañaga & Guijarro-Fuentes 2011). In other languages, such as (Standard Modern) Greek (Tsakali & Wexler 2003), Romanian (Babyonyshev & Marin 2006), Serbo-Croatian (Ilic & Deen 2004), and possibly Spanish (Wexler, Gavarró & Torrens 2004;Gavarró, Torrens & Wexler 2010), children were found not to omit clitics from age 2, but see the following discussion.…”

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A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production

Varlokosta

Belletti

Costa

et al. 2015

Language Acquisition

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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 crosslinguistic differences discussed in the article. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Object Clitic Omission: Two Language Types

Cited by 36 publications

References 33 publications

Failure to produce direct object clitic pronouns as a clinical marker of SLI in school-aged Italian speaking children

Failure to produce direct object clitic pronouns as a clinical marker of SLI in school-aged Italian speaking children

Non-word repetition: The relationship between weak syllables and the omission of grammatical morphemes in children with specific language impairment

A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production

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