The development of postverbal subjects in L2 Italian: A multifactorial corpus analysis.
Most studies on the acquisition of postverbal subjects (VS) in L2 Italian focus on a limited number of linguistic factors that tend to be associated with the production of VS in L1 (e.g., verb class and subject discourse status). Moreover, they analyze homogeneous groups of learners in terms of prof...
| Publicado en: | Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 180 - 213 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2024
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