Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects: Evidence from near-native Italian

By A. Belletti, E. Bennati, A. Sorace. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Interface vulnerability and knowledge of the subjunctive/indicative distinction with negated epistemic predicates in L2 Spanish (2008, background): “Note that the presence of nominative Case marking on the subjunctive subject in the absence of a T node is not problematic if we assume that the true source of nominative Case is the +Fin head, in the spirit of Bianchi (2001) and Aygen (2006), among others.”
Clitic-doubled left dislocation and focus fronting in L2 Spanish: A case of successful acquisition at the syntax–discourse interface (2012, background): “for L1 English / L2 Italian, see Belletti et al., 2007; Sorace and Filiaci, 2006; for L1 Russian / L2 Greek, see Tsimpli and Sorace, 2006). In recent years, more properties at the syntax–discourse interface across a wider array of L1–L2 pairings have been examined, and the results have been interpre”
Scalar implicatures in second language acquisition (2010, neutral): “For example, Belletti et al. (2007) studied the comprehension and usage of null subjects by near-native speakers of Italian whose native language is English. They found that although their subjects showed complete mastery of null subject pro licensing in syntax, they continued to diverge on the disc”
The syntax–discourse interface in near-native L2 acquisition: Off-line and on-line performance* (2009, background): “At the near-native level, Belletti et al. (2007) report a series of experiments with 17 English near-native speakers of Italian, who are pre-screened for native-likeness.”
The Interpretability Hypothesis: evidence from wh-interrogatives in second language acquisition (2007, background): “Sorace (2005) and Belletti et al. (2005) maintain that features relevant to the syntax–discourse interface are problematic for L2 learners, in contrast with uninterpretable features, which are acquired in end-state L2 grammars.”
Discourse conditions on subject pronoun realization: Testing the linguistic intuitions of older bilingual children (2009, result): “The same unidirectionality of the effects has been reported in other studies of adult late bilingual speakers (Belletti et al., 2007; Sorace and Filiaci, 2006), which have pointed out how any effect of Italian on English in this particular domain would be syntactically illicit because inconsistent…”
Parsing and Working Memory in Bilingual Sentence Processing (2016, background): “For example, as L2 learners overextend interpretation of overt pronouns in a null-subject L2 to refer to the current discourse topic (Belletti et al., 2007; Sorace & Filiaci, 2006), Tsimpli, Sorace, Heycock and Filiaci (2004) reported that L1 Italian speakers under attrition from L2 English also…”