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Peer reviewedThornton, Rosalind – Language Acquisition, 1995
This article compares children's productions of wh-questions such as "who?" or "what?". Data were gathered using the technique of elicited production. (26 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Language Research, Oral Language
Peer reviewedMcKee, Cecile – Language Acquisition, 1992
Four experiments on the acquisition of binding are compared, two conducted with Italian-speaking children and two with English-speaking children. English-speaking children's mastery of pronominal binding is found to lag behind their mastery of binding for anaphors and R-expressions. (61 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Direct linkde Hoop, Helen; Kramer, Irene – Language Acquisition, 2006
We find a general, language-independent pattern in child language acquisition in which there is a clear difference between subject and object noun phrases. On one hand, indefinite objects tend to be interpreted nonreferentially, independently of word order and across experiments and languages. On the other hand, indefinite subjects tend to be…
Descriptors: Word Order, Nouns, Child Language, Language Acquisition
