The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal
about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface …

Optimality Theory is a general model of how grammars are structured. This article surveys
the motivations for Optimality Theory, its core principles, and the basics of analysis. It also …

1. Language learning at school 132 1.1 Monolingual children 132 1.2 Bilingual children 136
2. L1 attrition in minority-language speaking children 139 2.1 Inuktitut-speaking children in …

This study presents data from an experiment on the interpretation of intrasentential
anaphora in Italian by native Italian speakers and by English speakers who have learned …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers,
drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish …

In this paper we present some results from an experimental study that we have been
conducting into the effects of syntactic attrition on the L1 of Greek and Italian speakers who …

This work investigates the processing of Italian subject pronouns, both the null and the overt
pronoun, in intra-sentential anaphora. A processing hypothesis is proposed, the Position of …

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on
neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one …

This article reports the results of experiments targeting the production and interpretation of
postverbal subjects, and null and overt pronominal subjects, by near-native speakers of …