Elena V. Koulidobrova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena V. Koulidobrova is involved.
2019 Argument omission in SignL2 acquisition by deaf learners: Back to the inhibition Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 297–318 | Chapter
We examine subject omission in American Sign Language (ASL) as a second sign language (SignL2) by deaf and hard-of-hearing users of Emirati Sign Language (EmiratiSL) with variable ages of exposure to SignL1. Results indicate that during a narrative, similarly to unimodal speech bilinguals, SignL2… read more
2017 Language interaction effects in bimodal bilingualism: Argument omission in the languages of hearing ASL-English bilinguals Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 583–613 | Article
The focus of the paper is a phenomenon well documented in both monolingual and bilingual English acquisition: argument omission. Previous studies have shown that bilinguals acquiring a null and a non-null argument language simultaneously tend to exhibit unidirectional cross-language interaction… read more
2012 Commentary on Fischer & Johnson (1982) Sign Language & Linguistics 15:2, pp. 253–258 | Article
2012 Parallelism revisited: The nature of the null argument in ASL as compared to the Romance-style pro Sign Language & Linguistics 15:2, pp. 259–270 | Article
Previous research has argued that the null argument surfacing in ASL is comparable to its Spanish counterpart — agreement licensed pro (e.g. Rizzi 1986). This analysis has been applied to both subjects and objects of either all verb classes (Bahan et al. 2000) or agreeing verbs only (Lillo-Martin… read more