Acquisition of

Stromswold, Karin; Zimmermann, Kai

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ERIC Number: EJ606652

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Acquisition of "Nein" and "Nicht" and the VP-Internal Subject Stage in German.

Stromswold, Karin; Zimmermann, Kai

Language Acquisition, v8 n2 p101-27 1999-2000

Analyzes the negative utterances made by German-speaking children in transcripts of spontaneous speech. Results indicate that German-speaking children distinguish between "nicht" and "nein," using "nicht" in sentence-medial position for sentential negation and "nein" in sentence-initial position for anaphoric negation. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: German, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Negative Forms (Language), Phrase Structure, Toddlers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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