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| Deep Structure | 1 |
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| Journal of Child Language | 1 |
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| Prideaux, Gary D. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedPrideaux, Gary D. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
This article criticizes a previous paper that stressed a transformational analysis of children's question acquisition. It is argued that a surface structure generalization analysis makes empirically correct predictions about mistakes both in acquisition of inverted word order and in the form of "wh" questions. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics
