tense and clitics in Romance languages

[Isa Barriere]

Hi,

I generally agree with John's point: tense marking and the appropriate use
of object clitics reflect different aspects of the grammar.  You will find
relevant discussions in the many papers that have contrasted subject and
object clitics in the acquisition of French by Cornelia Hamman, Celia
Jacubowicz, Geraldine Legendre, Marie-Therese Lenormand, Joanne Paradis,
Phaedra Royle and my own on the acquisition of French SE (accessible at
www.yeled.org/res.asp) in addition to the works cited below by John.

To the best of my knowledge the literature on the acquisition of Spanish
and Italian also demontrate the realtively late acquisition of object
clitics, in relation to tense marking- see the many papers by Bottari for
Italian and on Spanish See the chapter by L.M. Bedore Morphosyntactic
Development and references cited therein in B.A. Goldstein (2004) Bilingual
Language Development and  Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers.

Best,

Isabelle Barriere, PhD

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Grinstead, John <Grinstead.11 at osu.edu>wrote:

>  See "General and specific effects of lexicon in grammar: Determiner and
> object pronoun omissions in child Spanish" by Pérez-Leroux, Castilla &
> Brunner in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
>
> It does not address the development of tense, which is likely to be
> relatively independent of the lexicon in its development (See Rice, Wexler
> and Hershberger 1998; Rice, Wexler and Redmond 1999), but it shows
> convincingly that missing objects are attributable to children's developing
> lexical knowledge (i.e whether a verb is optionally or obligatorily
> transitive is lexical knowledge of that verb), and not to their syntactic
> knowledge.
>
>
>    - Pérez-Leroux, A. T., Castilla, A. P., & Brunner, J. (2012). General
>    and specific effects of lexicon in grammar: Determiner and object pronoun
>    omissions in child Spanish. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
>    Research, 55(2), 313-327.
>    - Rice, M. L., Wexler, K., & Hershberger, S. (1998). Tense over Time:
>    The Longitudinal Course of Tense Acquisition in Children with Specific
>    Language Impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research,
>    41(6), 1412-1431.
>    - Rice, M. L., Wexler, K., & Redmond, S. M. (1999). Grammaticality
>    Judgments of an Extended Optional Infinitive Grammar: Evidence from
>    English-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment. Journal of
>    Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42(4), 943-961.
>
> On the view I am suggesting, the two types of errors you mention stem from
> different types of knowledge development.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> John
>
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> From: Aude Laloi <a.laloi at uva.nl>
> Reply-To: <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:37:17 +0200
> To: <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: tense and clitics in Romance languages
>
>  Dear all****
> ** **
> 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
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