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Peer reviewedBerent, Gerald P. – Language Learning, 1983
Misinterpretations of the logical subject of infinitives by second language learners and prelingually deaf adults are compared with children's extension of the minimal distance principle during acquisition of infinitive complement structures and other research studies. Later acquisition of certain structure is explained in terms of the sentences'…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Deafness
