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Roksolana Mykhaylyk
157-167 (complete pdf)
This paper presents novel evidence teasing apart the role of semantic features in scrambling. 37 bilingual English-Ukrainian children and 41 monolingual Ukrainian children from 2 to 6 were tested in an oral elicitation task which triggered the use of scrambled or basic structures in different semantic contexts. The results show a highly significant effect of specificity-partitivity on scrambling in Ukrainian. The data also suggest that the implementation of features might differ cross-linguistically, since bilingual children use less scrambling in specific-referential contexts than monolingual children.
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Proceedings of the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009)
edited by Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul, and Annie Tremblay
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-434-8 library binding
v+294 pages
publication date: 2009
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA