Cristina Schmitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3850629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Schmitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Telicity in context
This study examines how Mandarin-speaking children and adults evaluate telic descriptions in incomplete situations. It focuses on incremental-theme predi- cates with verbal -le and tests whether truth-value judgments depend simply on event (in)completeness or on the interaction between visual event structure and determiner type. Mandarin-speaking adults and children aged 4–6 judged sentences describing events in which either all three objects wer…
After the Null Subject Parameter
In many so-called canonical null subject languages, null and overt subject pronouns have contrasting referential preferences: null subjects tend to maintain reference to the preceding subject while overt pronominal subjects do not. We propose that children acquire this contrast by initially restricting their attention to 1st and 2nd person pronouns, whose reference is simpler to infer compared to 3rd person pronouns. We provide supporting evidenc…
Considering the whole paradigm
Many languages encode phi-features via overt morphology, yet children’s use of this morphology in comprehension tasks varies widely. Here, we use a picture-selection task to test comprehension of Spanish verbal agreement and clitics, comparing performance across and within each paradigm to examine the effect of two factors: (i) phonological salience, and (ii) semantic (under)specification. Both paradigms encode the same person and number features…
Children's and adults' eye movements and the extraction of number information from ambiguous and unambiguous markings
Spanish-speaking children's use of verbal inflection in comprehension
Effects of variable input in the acquisition of plural in two dialects of Spanish
Making discourse-dependent decisions
Number and indefinites
The syntax and semantics of bare arguments in Brazilian Portuguese
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Cross-linguistic variation and the present perfect
The Present Perfect in Portuguese has the curious property of forcing iteration of the eventuality described. This paper proposes an account of the iterativity in terms of selectional restrictions of the Present Tense and independent properties of the Perfect and argues against the account of Giorgi and Pianesi 1998 in which the Portuguese Present Perfect is treated as containing two main verbs
When 'stay' and 'become' are the same verb
In this paper I investigate the properties of the copula-like verb 'ficar' in Brazilian Portuguese using Pustejovsky's generative lexicon (GL). The verb 'ficar' can be translated as 'stay' or 'become', depending on its complement. With locatives, only the STAY reading is possible. With adjectival complements, both BECOME and STAY readings are possible. I propose that 'ficar' takes an eventuality as its complement and I argue that there is no need…
Lack of iteration
In this paper I show that accusative clitic doubling in Spanish affects the aspectual interpretation of the VP in that it blocks iterative readings of eventive predicates. The addition of the aspectual problem to the more traditional problems (how can there be two DPs and only one thematic role; why not all DPs can be doubled; and what is the role of the preposition a that appears with the doubled DP) reduces to a large extent the space of possib…
Licensing definite determiners
...
Number and indefinites
The syntax and semantics of bare arguments in Brazilian Portuguese
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Making discourse-dependent decisions
Effects of variable input in the acquisition of plural in two dialects of Spanish
Spanish-speaking children's use of verbal inflection in comprehension
Lack of iteration
In this paper I show that accusative clitic doubling in Spanish affects the aspectual interpretation of the VP in that it blocks iterative readings of eventive predicates. The addition of the aspectual problem to the more traditional problems (how can there be two DPs and only one thematic role; why not all DPs can be doubled; and what is the role of the preposition a that appears with the doubled DP) reduces to a large extent the space of possib…
Licensing definite determiners
...
When 'stay' and 'become' are the same verb
In this paper I investigate the properties of the copula-like verb 'ficar' in Brazilian Portuguese using Pustejovsky's generative lexicon (GL). The verb 'ficar' can be translated as 'stay' or 'become', depending on its complement. With locatives, only the STAY reading is possible. With adjectival complements, both BECOME and STAY readings are possible. I propose that 'ficar' takes an eventuality as its complement and I argue that there is no need…
Cross-linguistic variation and the present perfect
The Present Perfect in Portuguese has the curious property of forcing iteration of the eventuality described. This paper proposes an account of the iterativity in terms of selectional restrictions of the Present Tense and independent properties of the Perfect and argues against the account of Giorgi and Pianesi 1998 in which the Portuguese Present Perfect is treated as containing two main verbs
The syntax and semantics of bare arguments in Brazilian Portuguese
Preview this article: The syntax and semantics of bare arguments in Brazilian Portuguese, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/livy.2.08sch-1.gif
Number and indefinites
Making discourse-dependent decisions
Effects of variable input in the acquisition of plural in two dialects of Spanish
Spanish-speaking children's use of verbal inflection in comprehension
Considering the whole paradigm
Many languages encode phi-features via overt morphology, yet children’s use of this morphology in comprehension tasks varies widely. Here, we use a picture-selection task to test comprehension of Spanish verbal agreement and clitics, comparing performance across and within each paradigm to examine the effect of two factors: (i) phonological salience, and (ii) semantic (under)specification. Both paradigms encode the same person and number features…
Children's and adults' eye movements and the extraction of number information from ambiguous and unambiguous markings
After the Null Subject Parameter
In many so-called canonical null subject languages, null and overt subject pronouns have contrasting referential preferences: null subjects tend to maintain reference to the preceding subject while overt pronominal subjects do not. We propose that children acquire this contrast by initially restricting their attention to 1st and 2nd person pronouns, whose reference is simpler to infer compared to 3rd person pronouns. We provide supporting evidenc…
Telicity in context
This study examines how Mandarin-speaking children and adults evaluate telic descriptions in incomplete situations. It focuses on incremental-theme predi- cates with verbal -le and tests whether truth-value judgments depend simply on event (in)completeness or on the interaction between visual event structure and determiner type. Mandarin-speaking adults and children aged 4–6 judged sentences describing events in which either all three objects wer…
Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Language Development and Disorders (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Comprehension (4 works)