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SUMMARY:Object clitics across linguistic modules in a crosslinguistic pers
 pective - Prof. Teresa Guasti (Milan-Bicocca)
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DESCRIPTION:The production of clitics is an excellent clinical marker of S
 LI in Italian at 5 years (Bortolini et al.\, 2006) and at 7 years (Arosio 
 et al.\, 2014) identifying more than 90% of the children affected with SLI
  at both ages. However\, clitic production is problematic in other conditi
 ons (Leonini\, 2006\; Belletti & Haman\, 2009)\, among which early L2 acqu
 isition\, acquisition by cochlear implanted (CI) children\, acquisitionby 
 children with dyslexia. This is a serious problem for the identification o
 f L2 children with SLI\, of children with SLI among CI children. It also r
 aises the question of why clitics are vulnerable in all these acquisition 
 modes. Clitics are less of challenging for Greek children with SLI\, altho
 ugh they are also vulnerable in this language\, with differences between d
 irect and indirect object clitics. Finally\, reflexive clitics are not cha
 llenging at all for children with SLI.\nThis paper aims at providing a via
 ble solution for the identification of SLI among L2 and CI children\, an e
 xplanation for why some kind of clitics are vulnerable in all the conditio
 ns in Italian and some are not\, an explanation for the crosslinguistic di
 fferences.\nI show that quantitative and qualitative differences are obser
 ved among the various populations and that different profiles distinguishe
 s these populations. Finally\, I will offer a proposal whereby the difficu
 lties with clitics stem from various intervention effects\, which are not 
 featured in those constructions in which clitics are not problematic.
LOCATION:Brown Library (English Faculty)
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