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Direct linkGeffen, Susan; Mintz, Toben H. – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Word order is a core mechanism for conveying syntactic structure, yet interrogatives usually disrupt canonical word orders. For example, in English, polar interrogatives typically invert the subject and auxiliary verb and insert an utterance-initial "do" if no auxiliary is present. These word order patterns result from differences in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Word Order, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
