Elaine Grolla
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elaine Grolla is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 2. Strategies in the production of PP relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 39–66 | Chapter
This study focuses on the production of Prepositional Phrase Relative Clauses (PP RCs) by Brazilian 4-/5-year-olds, aiming at discussing the types of responses children produce, compared to adults, considering competing alternatives pragmatically available in the language. Difficulty with… read more
2015 Interpretation of NPs in generic and existential contexts in L3 Brazilian Portuguese Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:2, pp. 215–251 | Article
This paper examines the interpretation of NPs in generic and existential contexts in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) as a third language (L3) by learners who speak English and a Romance language (Spanish, French or Italian). The paper examines whether transfer / cross-linguistic… read more
2006 The acquisition of A- and A’-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vincent and Linda Escobar (eds.), pp. 227–250 | Article
Previous studies on the acquisition of pronouns have concentrated either on A-bound or on A’-bound (resumptive) pronouns. In both cases, children performed at chance-level. In this work, I argue that the poor performance is due to a single underlying cause. This conclusion receives support from… read more