A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children: Insights from comprehension and production.
The present multidimensional study investigates the acquisition of pronominal subject-verb dependencies in Standard Haitian Creole (HC). A corpus analysis confirms that HC subject pronouns are phonological clitics in the target grammar and that their reduction is optional and unpredictable. The comp...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 35 - 94 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co.
2025
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