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Direct linkCrawford, Jean Lenore – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the acquisition of the passive. The apparent cross-linguistic delay of the verbal passive compared to other constructions suggests children's knowledge is somehow restricted, leading some to propose the difficulty arises because of syntactic maturation (Wexler 2004, Orfitelli 2012) or because of a heavy reliance…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Verbal Development
