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Santelmann, Lynn; Berk, Stephanie; Austin, Jennifer; Somashekar, Shamitha; Lust, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This paper examines two- to five-year-old children's knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that grammatical competence for inversion is present from the earliest testable ages of the child's…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Language Acquisition, Child Language, English
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Nakayama, Mineharu – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Sentences evoked from three- to five-year-olds (N=16), analyzed for errors (particularly copying-without-deletion), showed errors when: the subject noun phrase (NP) contained a relative clause, the relative clause had an object gap, and the relative clause was long. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns