Language acquisition and development proceedings of GALA2005 /

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The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Hebrew: Prepositions and
Resuaptive Pronouns
Sharon Armon-Lotem, Irena Botwinik-Roternm, and Sigal Birka... ........................ -
Children's Processing of Subject and Object Relatives in Italian
Fabrizio Arosio, Flavia Adani, and Maria Teresa Guasti ..... .. ........ ......... 15
The CP in Child Romanian: An Early Discourse-Anchor
Larisa Avram and Martine Coene ........ . ....... ... .... .. .... 2 8
Object Clitic Climbing in L2 Learners of Italian
Elisa Bennati and Simona M atteini. .. . _._._........ . . ......... ........ .............. 35
Agreement Inflection in Child L2 Dutch
E Im a B lom ... _ ... ... .. . ....... ....... . .... .......... .. . . 4 . ...;;. .& .... 49
Developmental Sequences and (In)Vulnerable Domains in German
interlanguage Syntax
U te Bohnacker .... . ........... .... . .. ............... .. . . 62
Null prepositions in L2 English and L2 Hebrew
Irena Botwinik -lRotemn... .. . . .... . ..... ........ 76
Where Do L2ers Attach Interclausal Adverbials?
Gerald Bulilock, Akira Omaki, Barbara Schulz, Bonnie D. Schwartz, and
Annie T'renm blay 8.2._.. ... .. t .. .4 . _ .......4.4 ... 4 . 4 . . .. .4 4 * 44. . ..... ... . 82
Article Omission and the Role of the Root
Claudia Caprin and Chiara logha ...... ........ 96
Verbai Agreement in Two Deaf Adults
Anna Cardinaletti and Paolo Chinellato ... ...... ....... 105
Functional Categories in Italian Agrammatism
Paolo C hinellato ... . ..... ........ .. .... .... .... - -... .. . . . . .. .. ..... ........... . .. . ...... . 1 12
The Interpretation of Wh-inrsitu in Korean Second Language
Acquisition
Myong-Hee Choi and Donna Lardiere . ... . .. .. .... ........... 1 25
The Acquisition of Clitics and Determiners by Child L2 learners of
Modemr Greek
Vicky Chondrogianni .......... ... . ...... ... .............. . . . 136
T'he Structure of Fragments in (Child) French
C6cile De Cat and George Tsoulas ................ ...."......... .... . .\.... ... ............ 142
A Novel Poverty of the Stimulus Argument From Swahili
Kanm i id Deen .U 8 ...... . .. ...... .. .. . .., ..... ... . . . .. ... ..... ... 1f 148
Features and Agree Relations in L2 Greek
Maria Dimitrakopoulou, Georgia Fotiadou, Anna Roussou, and lanthi
M aria Tsiimpii.. ... .... ................ ... .. . . ... 161 .. ..
Emergence of Principle B:
A Variable-Free Approach
Oiga Fedorova and Igor Yanovich .. .. ... .. ............ . . . . . . . . ........ . .... . 167
Acquisition of Object Clitics by Two Italian/German Bilingual
Children
"Ida F1rari .... 173
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How the Activation of the Scale Improves Pragmatic Performance
Francesca Foppolo .... . ... . . . . ... . ..................... . .. ... . .. 1 84
Syntactic Movement in Agrammatism and S-SLI: Two Different
Impairments
Naama Friedmann, Aviah Gvion, and Rama Novogrodsky . .... .... ... 197
On the Order of Acquisition of a Movement,
WH Movement and V-C Movement
Naarma Friedmann and Hedva Lavi ... . . . . ... .... .. . .. ... ...... . . . ...... 211
Why l s Arriving Can Also Mean Has Arrived for Japanese Learners of
English
A lison G abriele .. .... .. ........ ....... .. ....... .............. . 218
The acquisition of determiners:
Evidence for the Full Competence Hypothesis
Cijuliana Giustri and Roberta Cozzi ... .... .o.b ....... G ozzi. .. ...... 232
Does Aspect Matter in Child L2 Acquisition? Revisiting the
Relationship Between Inherent Aspect of Predicates and their Finiteness in
Child L2 acquisition of English
Beflma Haznedar. .. .. ... ..... .. . .. . . ............ . ...... 239
Developing Interlanguage Morphosyntax: A Case Study of L2 French
Julia I erschensohn .2.... .. . . ......4. . .... ...... .......... 4 245
Some (Wh-) Questions Concerning Passive Interactions
Cihr istopher Hirsch and Jeremy Hartman ..... .... ...... mm.... . ....... 256
Eflects of LI and Proficiency on L2 Parsing
H olgel- H op ... ...... . ........ ...6........... .. .... ...... .... .... ................. 9
An RI Stage in Malagasy? Implications for the Adult Grammar
Nina Hyams .... 282
Lexical Growth and Grammatical Competence: Potential Risks for
Children with a Hearing Deficiency
Jacqaueine van Kampen 97 . .. . . . . . . . . . 1 .. 29
Single Value Steps in First Language Acquisition
Jacqueline van Kampen and Arnold Evers... .. .. ...... ..... 304
Visible Versus Invisible Extraction or Gap Interpretation?
Leontine Kremers and Bart Hollebrandse .................. ... . ........ 318
Cross-Linguistic Differences in Child and Adult Speech Optional
Omissions: A Comparison of Dutch and Italian
Joke de Lange, Sergey Avrutin, and Maria Teresa Guasti ... .................. . 330
Object Clitics and Determiners in the Acquisition of Italian as L2
and LI
Cbiara Leonini ........_.......343
The L-Syntax of Verbs in the Acquisition of L1 Italian
Paolo L orusso . .. . ................................... . .... ... .. . ... ....................................... . 349
Direct Approach to Inference in Child Language: A Case Study of Every
Utako M inai ........_* .. ... .. .... .. ............ . ... . 35. 7
Parameterizing Negation: Interactions with Copular Constructions in
Ttalian and English Children
V incenzo M oscati ..... .... . ll..... . . .. .. ...ll..... ........ .. ..... . .. ..... .. .... 3 67
Focus -to-Stress Alignment in 4 to 5-year-old German-Leaning Children
Ania MMiller, Barbara H6hle, Michaela Schmitz, and Jorgen
W eilssenborn . . .... .. ...... ....... .... . ... . ... ..... ... .......... ......................... 379
On the Null Subject Stage in Non-null Subject L1 Acquisition
Katerina Palasis-Jourdan and Micheie Olivieri ..... ...... ................ 393
DP Acquisition as Structure Unraveling
Maren Pannemann and Fred Weerman ...... ... ............. 399
Morphological Cues in L2 Sentepce Processing: Evidence from
Subject/Object Ambiguities in Geek as L2
Despina Papadopoulou and lanthi Maria Tsimpli .... ...... .......... ..405
Processing of Morphological Markers as a Cue to Syntactic Phrases by
10-month-old German-Learning Infants
,Lydia Pei zer a d Barbara 6h1le . .......... .......... ...... ....... . ..... .. 4 1
Knowledge of Binding in SerboCroatian Speakers with Down Syndrome
Alexandra Perovic.. ...... ... . . ...... ... . .. ..... ..... . ..........*.i. . 423
The Puzzle of Mixed Agreement
in E-arly Code Mixing
Crstina Pierantozzi, Caterina Donati, Laura Bontempi, and Letizia
G asperoni . . . .. ....... . ........... .. .. ..... .. ..... ........ 4 37
'T1e Acquisition of Object Clitics in French L : Spontaneous vs.
Elicited Production
Mihaela Pirvulescu-..... . ... l li . .. .450. ) .
Child Slovenian Imperatives: Root Infinitive Analogues?
Dominlik Rus and Pritha Chandra ....................... .... .. 463
Disjoint Reference of Pronominal Binding
in Adult L2 English by Japanese learners
Tetssuya Sano and Makli Yamane . .. ...... .. . .... ...... ... ..... . ... .... 476
Getting in Focus: The Role of the NSR in Children's Interpretation of
Sentences with Focused Preverbal Material
A na L Icia Santos ......... .. ....... ...... . ..... ....... .......... ... ............. .487
L2 Acquisition of Definiteness and Specificity in English by Advanced
Japanese and Spanish Learners
N ealSnla ... . ............ ...... ............ .. .... .. ... ... 500
Interfaces in L2 development
A ntonella Sorace .... . .................... .. ...... .. ..... . . ........ .. ... .......... ... .-- - - 505
Computational Complexity and the Production of Long Distance
Wh-Questions in Child French-
N elleke S ik ...................... .... .... ........... .... ...... ........................................... 522
Developmental Paths in LI and L2 Phonological Acquisition: Consonant
Clusters in the Speech of Native Speakers and Turkish and Dutch Learners of
Greek1
M arina TZakosta...... ..., .....0.4.4.4. .. -440* 536
Setting the Wh-Movement Parameter
Aki a W atanabe ...... ..... . ........... ..... .. . . . . .. ..... ....... ... . 550
Triggering V2: The Amount of Input Needed for Parameter Setting in a
Split-CP Model of Clause Structure
M arit R. W estergaard . . . .... .. . ....... .. ... ...., ... .. .. ........... . .... 564
Scrambling and Children's Interpretations of Scope Interactions
Kyvoko Yamakr osh , i. .. . ...;...... ............. i.... . . ...... . 578
Non-lniform Development of Wh-Words in English Speakers' L2
Acquisition of Chinese Wh-questions
B oping Y uan ...l.... ...... . ......... . .... ...... . -...... . ...... ...... ......