Relative Clauses Are Barriers to "Wh"-Movement for Young Children.

De Villiers, Jill; Roeper, Thomas

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ERIC Number: EJ513649

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Publication Date: 1995

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Relative Clauses Are Barriers to "Wh"-Movement for Young Children.

De Villiers, Jill; Roeper, Thomas

Journal of Child Language, v22 n2 p389-404 Jun 1995

Two studies are described that investigated preschool children's sensitivity to relative clauses as barriers to the movement of "wh" questions. A cross-sectional study and a longitudinal study conducted over the course of one year found that young children refused to extract "wh" questions from the ungrammatical site inside a relative clause. (JL)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cross Sectional Studies, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Longitudinal Studies, Preschool Children, Testing

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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