Russian Children and Their Relatives: What Can a Free Word Order Language Reveal About the Subject/Object Asymmetry?
The present study revisits the well-attested phenomenon of Subject/Object Asymmetry in relative clause comprehension by monolingual Russian pre-school children. Additionally, it examines the NP-V and the V-NP word order types when the embedded NP precedes or follows the verb. Both the word orders ar...
| Publicado en: | Language Learning & Development Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 118 - 142 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr-Jun2025
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