Two studies are discussed that were conducted to investigate the status of control principles in children's grammar. An attempt is made to characterize the children's grammar types in terms of Universal Grammar and to account for how the grammar types change. (35 references) (JL)

Discusses that Serbo-Croation is a language with a dual system of relative clause formation and describes elicited production and comprehension experiments conducted with preschool children. Results are discussed in the context of the cross-linguistic typology of relative clauses and previous studies of the acquisition of relative clauses. (27…