By Theodoros Marinis
According to corpora of kids buying smooth Greek as their first language, this identify describes the advance of unmarried DPs which include sure and indefinite articles, advanced DPs that require using a number of sure articles, and quantity and case marking in nouns and sure articles.
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E. in the context of vocative/non-vocative. There are cases, though, in which animate common nouns may be used in the vocative. Consider a situation, in which somebody is having his lunch break and is sitting on a beach eating a sandwich. Then a dog comes up and wants to eat his food. e. Dog, go away! Interestingly, the use of vocatives for animals and dolls is common in child directed speech and also in child speech. This being so, substantive definite articles should also be canonical triggers, just like expletive definite articles with proper names and kinship terms because all three noun classes (proper names, kinship terms and common nouns) may be used in the context of vocative and non-vocative.
Similar ideas have been put forward by Speas (1994) who has proposed the Principle of Economy of Projection. (33) Principle of Economy of Projection Project XP only if XP has content. (Speas 1994: 186) The content of a node is defined by Speas on the basis of its phonological or semantic matrix: ‘a node X has content if and only if X dominates a distinct phonological matrix or a distinct semantic matrix’ (Speas 1994: 187). Consequently, configurations in which both the head and the specifier are empty, as in (34) below, will not be projected.
Two Greek students in Berlin, Olga Dougali and Efterpi Rizou, who had been trained with the CHAT2 transcription format, transcribed the recordings after listening to the audio-tapes and reading the initial transcriptions. Before starting the analysis, the final transcripts were verified against the audio-tapes. 3 The transcription of the Stephany Corpus was carried out by Ursula Stephany. Several notes were made during the recording sessions, which were added to the transcripts. Some of the transcripts were checked by the mothers of the children and almost all of them by native speakers of MG.