Performance Factors in Subject-Auxiliary Inversion by Children.

Nakayama, Mineharu

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Publication Date: 1987

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Performance Factors in Subject-Auxiliary Inversion by Children.

Nakayama, Mineharu

Journal of Child Language, v14 n1 p113-25 Feb 1987

Sentences evoked from three- to five-year-olds (N=16), analyzed for errors (particularly copying-without-deletion), showed errors when: the subject noun phrase (NP) contained a relative clause, the relative clause had an object gap, and the relative clause was long. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Usage, Performance Factors, Preschool Children, Questioning Techniques, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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