This paper reports on an exploratory study of cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition relative clauses by young Norwegian learners English, comparing L1 and L2 English material from TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) Corpus to GiG (Growth Grammar) Corpus. Previous this domain have usually involved language pairs that very different relativization strategies. investigates whether si...

Cross-linguistic studies can provide information about general and language specific features of development, but relatively few such are available in literature. The main aim the present study was to investigate, from a cross-linguistic perspective, roles internal factor gender external factors birth order parental education level on development 2-year-old children. We examined 351 children gr...

Cross-linguistic phoneme correspondences, or metaphonemes1, can be defined across languages which are relatively closely related in exactly the same way as correspondences can be defined for dialects, or accents, of a single language (e.g. O’Connor, 1973; Fitt, 2001). In this paper we present the theory of metaphonemes, comparing them with traditional archiand morphophonemes as well as with sim...

Rooth & Partee (1982) and Rooth (1985) have shown that the English-specific rule-by-rule system of PTQ can be factores out into function application plus two transformations for resolving type mismatch (type lifting and variable binding). Building on these insights, this article proposes a universal system for type-driven translation, by adding two more innovations: local type determination for...