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Peer reviewedGoodluck, Helen; Terzi, Arhonto; Diaz, Gema Chocano – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Examined how rules for interpreting empty category (EC) subjects of complement clauses vary crosslinguistically across structural and lexical dimensions. Twenty-three Greek-speaking 4- and 5-year-olds and 10 adults, 29 Spanish-speaking 4- and 5-year-olds, 18 6- and 7-year-olds, and 8 adults took part in act-out experiments. Results indicate an…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Greek, Language Acquisition
