I argue that third person is not underspecified: there must be a distinct feature. add to the existing body of morphological arguments for this conclusion (Nevins 2007; Trommer 2008, a.o.) syntactic argument: show omnivorous agreement in Algonquian languages. focus here on two, Blackfoot (Plains Algonquian) and Plains Cree (Central Algonquian), demonstrating they have an suffix (the peripheral ...

under article 267 of the civil code, a person who pays the debt of the other without his permission cannot recover the amount paid as the payment of debt in this situation appears to be gratuitous. nevertheless, in different codes, the legislator has permitted a third party to pay the debts of the others in some situations.. by carefully examining these cases, it can be said that anytime the th...

This study addresses the acquisition of the morphological markers in Persian learners of English as a foreign language. To this end, the accuracy order of nine morphemes including plural –s, progressive –ing, copula be, auxiliary be, irregular past tense, regular past tense –ed, third person –s, possessive -ʼs and indefinite articles was studied in 6...

Previous research shows that two-year-olds’ third person singular -s and plural -s are produced more accurately in utterance-final compared to utterance-medial position. However, only the third person singular is affected by coda complexity. This study explores these effects with possessive -s. Acoustic analysis of twelve two-year-olds’ elicited imitations examined the use of simple versus comp...

As people change from face-to-face communication to mediated communication the form of representation changes. Distortion of the message in face-to-face communication is something we have learned to live with and control to some extent by the way we represent ourselves, and our message, to the outside world. When the message is being mediated and represented to the recipient by a communications...

PURPOSE Two-year-olds produce third person singular -s more accurately on verbs in sentence-final position as compared with verbs in sentence-medial position. This study was designed to determine whether these sentence-position effects can be explained by perceptual factors. METHOD For this purpose, the authors compared 22- and 27-month-olds' perception and elicited production of third person...