Emily Atkinson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emily Atkinson plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 5. Sticking to what we know: Methodological limitations to generalizability Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications, Messenger, Katherine (ed.), pp. 83–106 | Chapter
The ultimate goal of research is to generate and test broad theories that account for a wide range of scenarios. Conclusions at this level, however, are only valid if they are based on heterogenous data. This chapter reviews the limitations in child syntactic priming methodologies that do not… read more
2015 Gender features on n & the root: An account of gender in French Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012, Smith, Jason and Tabea Ihsane (eds.), pp. 229–244 | Article
French presents a challenge to single feature gender analyses. For animate nouns natural sex is often realized instead of grammatical gender. Also, the sex and gender of epicene nouns – animates with fixed gender that allow no morphological representation of sex – can conflict. I argue for a two… read more