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By Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, Donna Lardiere

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Little Words is an interdisciplinary exam of the capabilities and alter within the use of clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse debris, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and different “little phrases” that experience performed a vital function in linguistic thought and in language acquisition learn. major students current complicated study in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse functionality, ancient improvement, version, and acquisition through kids and adults.

This exact quantity integrates the perspectives and findings of those diversified study parts into one specialist resource for use inside of and throughout disciplines. Languages studied comprise English, Spanish, French, Romanian, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Slavonic, and Medieval Leonese.

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Shlonsky, Ur. 1991. Quantifiers as functional heads: A study of quantifier float in Hebrew. Lingua 84:159–80. Sportiche, Dominique. 1988. A theory of floating quantifiers and its corollaries for constituent structure. Linguistic Inquiry 19 (3): 425–49. Stockwell, Robert, Paul Schachter, and Barbara Partee. 1973. The major structures of English. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson. 3 When Small Words Collide Morphological Reduction and Phonological Compensation in Old Leonese Contractions M I N TA E L S M A N A N D D .

Fitzpatrick, Justin. 2006. The syntactic and semantic roots of floating quantification. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Huntley, David. 1993. Old Church Slavonic. In The Slavonic languages, ed. Bernard Comrie and Greville Corbett, 125–87. London: Routledge. Ladusaw, William. 1982. Semantic constraints on the English partitive construction. Proceedings of WCCFL I, ed. Susannah MacKaye, Mark Cobler, and Michael Wescoat, 231–42. Stanford, CA: Stanford Linguistic Association.. Landman, Fred.

Students are often drilled on these as “sight words,” but, nevertheless, students who can read them readily in word lists often show the patterns we have described when reading them in connected text. Some insight may be found from studying what these children are looking at while they are reading aloud. To read fluently with appropriate stress, a reader must be looking ahead in the text in order to construct appropriate phrasal word groups. In pilot studies using eye tracking, we have found consistent differences between fluent and nonfluent readers.

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