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Direct linkDe Villiers, Jill; Roeper, Thomas; Bland-Stewart, Linda; Pearson, Barbara – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
A large-scale study of complex "wh"-questions with 1,000 subjects aged 4-9 years is reported. The subjects' dialects were Mainstream American English or African American English, and approximately one-third were language impaired. The study examined when children permit long distance "wh"-movement, and when they respect a variety of syntactic…
Descriptors: North American English, Dialects, Linguistic Performance, Language Impairments
