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Peer reviewedRowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V.M.; Theaksto, Anna L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Many current generativist theorists suggest that young children possess the grammatical principles of inversion required for question formation but make errors because they find it difficult to learn language-specific rules about how inversion applies. The present study analyzed longitudinal spontaneous sampled data from twelve 2-3-year-old…
Descriptors: Young Children, Constructivism (Learning), Error Analysis (Language), Language Research
