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Nguyen, Emma; Pearl, Lisa – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
Children seem to be relatively delayed in their comprehension of the verbal "be"-passive in English, compared to their acquisition of other constructions of object-movement such as "wh"-questions and unaccusatives. Prior work has found that children's performance on these passives can be affected by the verb's lexical…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Value Judgment, Meta Analysis