<div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For more on object clitics in L1 Italian, see</div><div><br></div><div><div>Tedeschi, Roberta. 2009. Acquisition at the interfaces: A Case Study of Object Clitics in</div><div>Early Italian. Utrecht: LOT.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this is helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div>-Theres</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Theres Grüter, PhD
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Department of Second Language Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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</pre></div><br><br>On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:37:17 PM UTC-10, Aude wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Dear all</div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">I have a question concerning differences in acquisition/accuracy rate between grammatical constructions in (a)typical child learners.</div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.</div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Does anyone know whether this discrepancy between tense and object clitics has been observed in (a)typical learners of any other (Romance) languages?</div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">I have my own ideas but would like to hear explanations from others as to why this is the case.</div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Thanks a lot for your help!</div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Aude</div><div>
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