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Labelle, Marie – Language Acquisition, 1996
Argues that French-speaking children age 3;0 to 6;0 (and older) produce relative clauses without moving lexical relative phrases to a clause-initial position. This article contrasts three accounts of this fact and concludes that the account stating that relative clauses are produced without syntactic "wh"-movement provides the best…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Elementary School Students, French
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Matsuoka, Kazumi – Language Acquisition, 1997
Extends the study of children's knowledge of Binding Condition B to a construction containing pronouns embedded in conjoined noun phrases. The study included pronouns bound by a quantifier. Results support the argument that anaphoric relations are constrained by more than one module of grammar. (12 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
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Crain, Stephen; And Others – Language Acquisition, 1996
Argues against the linguistic account of children's responses to sentences with universal quantification and reports on investigations of their comprehension and production of quantificational sentences. The article concludes that young children have full grammatical competence with universal quantification. (58 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness