Weak pronoun

Weak pronoun

A weak pronoun is a pronoun phonetically more independent than clitic pronouns but less independent than ordinary pronouns [Citation
first=Kleanthes K.
last=Grohmann
title=Towards a Syntactic Understanding of Prosodically Reduced Pronouns
journal=Theoretical Linguistics
volume=26
issue=3
pages=175-210
year=2000
url=http://www.punksinscience.org/kleanthes/papers/tl26.pdf
] [Citation
first=Sergio
last=Baauw
title=The Role of the Clitic-Full Pronoun Distinction in the Acquisition of Pronominal Coreference
journal=BUCLD Proceedings
volume=23
editor-first=A.
editor-last=Greenhill
editor2-first=H.
editor2-last=Littlefield
editor3-first=C.
editor3-last=Tano
publisher=Cascadilla Press
place=Somerville, Mass.
url=http://www.let.uu.nl/~Sergio.Baauw/personal/bu98proc2.pdf
] .

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