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Download full textGerken, LouAnn – 1990
A discussion of English-speaking children's use of subjectless sentences contrasts the competence and performance explanations for the phenomenon. In particular, it reviews evidence indicating that the phenomenon does not reflect linguistic competence, but rather performance constraints. A tentative model of children's production is presented…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
