Children's acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian.
Norwegian embedded clauses give children two options for subject placement: preceding or following negation (S-Neg/Neg-S). In the adult language, S-Neg is the 'default' and highly frequent option, and Neg-S is infrequent in children's input. However, Neg-S may be argued to be the structurally less c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 51; no. 5; pp. 1 - 26 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2024
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