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Garcia, Rowena; Dery, Jeruen E.; Roeser, Jens; Höhle, Barbara – First Language, 2018
This article investigates the word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and five- and seven-year-old children. The participants were asked to complete sentences to describe pictures depicting actions between two animate entities. Adults preferred agent-initial constructions in the patient voice but not in the agent voice, while the…
Descriptors: Preferences, Word Order, Phrase Structure, Tagalog
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Smolík, Filip – First Language, 2015
This article reports on an experiment that examined the comprehension of transitive sentences in Czech children and its relationship to case marking, word order and information structure. A total of 107 Czech children aged 2;9-4;5 were tested for comprehension of noun-verb-noun sentences in which word order and given-new status of individual nouns…
Descriptors: Word Order, Nouns, Verbs, Grammar