Adriana Belletti

List of John Benjamins publications in which Adriana Belletti is involved.

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The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp.

Bentea, Anamaria, Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi and Stephanie Durrleman 2025 Chapter 1. Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 2–19 | Chapter

Children’s difficulties with object relatives, linked to intervention effects (Friedmann et al. 2009), can be modulated by finer-grained featural mismatches between the moved object and the embedded subject. We investigated the effect of gender and number featural mismatches and the role of… read more

Belletti, Adriana 2018 Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery: The case of a-Topics Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 57–72 | Chapter

A parallel is highlighted between the linguistic behavior of young Italian-speaking children as emerged in recent experimental work (Belletti and Manetti 2017) with comparative data from other Romance languages such as Balearic Catalan and (previous stages of) Spanish in the domain of a-Topics. A… read more

Belletti, Adriana 2014  Parametric variation and syntactic computations: Elements to disentangle lateness in (modes of) acquisition Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, pp. 315–320 | Commentary

Belletti, Adriana 2013 Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 309–324 | Article

By reviewing some recent experimental results in the domain of answering strategies in different languages and in the domain of Subject relatives and Object relatives in development (and adult parsing), the paper aims at illustrating the crucial contribution that experimental studies can provide on… read more

Belletti, Adriana 2007 Answering strategies: A view from acquisition Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 19–38 | Article

Different languages adopt different grammatical options - SV, VS orders, (reduced) clefts - to answer the same question on the identification of the subject. The answering strategies are detected through speakers’ grammaticality judgements and through acquisition data, specially adult L2… read more

Belletti, Adriana and Chiara Leonini 2004 Subject inversion in L2 Italian EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4 (2004), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mitsuhiko Ota (eds.), pp. 95–118 | Article

Belletti, Adriana and Cornelia Hamann 2004 On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languages The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories, Prévost, Philippe and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 147–174 | Article

Belletti, Adriana 1988 Luigi Burzio. Italian syntax. A Government-Binding approach Studies in Language 12:1, pp. 255–260 | Squib