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Ozeki, Hiromi; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Journal of Child Language, 2010
This study analyzes the acquisition of relative clauses in Japanese to determine the semantic and functional characteristics of children's relative clauses in spontaneous speech. Longitudinal data from five Japanese children are analyzed and compared with English data (Diessel & Tomasello, 2000). The results show that the relative clauses produced…
Descriptors: Speech, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition