Brunetto, V, Kershaw, C and Garraffa, M (2023) When acquisition and aphasia converge: the case of copula omission. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 8 (1). pp. 1-24. ISSN 2397-1835
Abstract
This paper reports evidence for a convergence between child language acquisition and Broca’s aphasia in the domain of copula omission. Our data shows that, in the spontaneous speech of people with Broca’s aphasia (PWBA), copula omission is confined to aspectual predicates, replicating a finding previously reported by Becker (2002) for child English. This grammatical property is a much stronger predictor of copula omission than alternative, extra-grammatical factors, such as predicate length or utterance length. We argue that grammatical accounts which predict the fragility of Tense by virtue of its cartographic location, in terms of ‘tree- pruning’/‘growing trees’, fare better than others in explaining similarities in patterns of omission in these two populations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | copula, Aspect, acquisition, aphasia, truncation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Linguistics & Phonetics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2023 14:29 |
Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2023 10:39 |
Published Version: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/9326/#:~... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Open Library of Humanities |
Identification Number: | 10.16995/glossa.9326 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201155 |
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