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Direct linkLeonard, Laurence B.; Fey, Marc E.; Deevy, Patricia; Bredin-Oja, Shelley L. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
We tested four predictions based on the assumption that optional infinitives can be attributed to properties of the input whereby children inappropriately extract non-finite subject-verb sequences (e.g. "the girl run") from larger input utterances (e.g. "Does the girl run?" "Let's watch the girl run"). Thirty children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Impairments, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage
