Exploring the complexities of metalinguistic performance, this volume challenges the assumption that such abilities directly reflect linguistic knowledge. It delves into the interplay between metalinguistic skills and interlinguistic competence through the lenses of language acquisition theory and cognitive psychology. The book provides valuable insights for researchers in designing elicitation tools and interpreting performance data, while also contributing to discussions on how metalinguistic factors influence second-language learning outcomes.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Parametric Change: Empty Subjects in Old French -- Restructured Compounds and Romance Causatives -- En-Chain -- Problems with Past Participles Agreement in French and Italian Dialects -- Consonant Strength in the Romance Dialects of the Pyrenees -- The Case for a Syntax-dependent Postlexical Module in Spanish Phonology -- The Middle and the Pseudo-Middle in French -- ECP Effects at LF in Spanish -- El acent? dislocad? - pues cantad? - castellan?: On Explaining Stress-Shift in Song-Texts from Spanish (and Certain Other Romance Languages) -- First-Person Singular Inversion in French -- Transitive, Intransitive and Reflexive Uses of Adjectival Verbs in French -- Morphological Constraints on Epenthesis and Adjunction: Paradigmatic or Cyclic? -- Clitic Movement in Spanish and the Projection Principle -- Past Participle Agreement in French: Agreement = Case -- Constraints on Rime-internal Syllabification in French: Eliminating Truncation Rules -- Variable Deletion of que in the spoken French of Ottawa-Hull -- On Predication and Identity within NP's -- Structure-preserving Properties of an Epenthetic Rule in Spanish -- Resetting the Parameters: Acquiring Spanish as L2 -- Clitic-Chains and the Definiteness Requirement in Doubling Constructions -- Gemination and the Proto-Romance Syllable Shift -- Quantifiers and Direct Object-Doubling -- Implicit Arguments and Control in Middles and Passives
