tense and clitics in Romance languages

[Theres]

In addition to "knowledge development", as pointed out by John, the 
development of processing abilities may also be involved, at least in the 
case of object clitics. See:

Grüter, Theres, Nereyda Hurtado & Anne Fernald (2012). Interpreting object 
clitics in real-time: eye-tracking evidence from 4-year-old and adult 
speakers of Spanish. In Alia K. Biller, Esther Y. Chung, and Amelia E. 
Kimball (eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference 
on Language Development. Somerville (pp. 213-225), MA: Cascadilla Press. 

Grüter, Theres & Martha Crago (2012). Object clitics and their omission in 
child L2 French: The contributions of processing limitations and L1 
transfer. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15(3), 531-549.

For more on object clitics in L1 Italian, see

Tedeschi, Roberta. 2009. Acquisition at the interfaces: A Case Study of 
Object Clitics in
Early Italian. Utrecht: LOT.

I hope this is helpful.

best,
-Theres


Theres Grüter, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Second Language Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

http://theresgruter.homestead.com



On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:37:17 PM UTC-10, Aude wrote:
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> Dear all
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> I have a question concerning differences in acquisition/accuracy 
> rate between grammatical constructions in (a)typical child learners.
>  
> In French, children with and without language disorders seem to perform 
> better in terms of accuracy on past tense as opposed to object 
> clitics. However, to my knowledge, the question as to why object ciltics 
> would be more difficult/vulnerable than past tense in French has not been 
> thoroughly addressed.
> Does anyone know whether this discrepancy between tense and object clitics 
> has been observed in (a)typical learners of any other (Romance) languages?
>  
> I have my own ideas but would like to hear explanations from others as to 
> why this is  the case.
>  
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> Aude
> Aude Laloi
> Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication
> Universiteit van Amsterdam
> Laboratoire de psychopathologie et processus de santé
> Université Paris Descartes
> <http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.laloi/>
> http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.laloi/
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