An evaluation of the facilitative effects of inverted yes-no questions on the acquisition of auxiliary verbs.

According to the Auxiliary Clarification Hypothesis (ACH), yes-no questions with sentence-initial auxiliaries (i.e., inverted questions) facilitate children's initial acquisition of auxiliary verbs. Sixteen 3-year-old children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 18 2-year-olds with typical l...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 160 - 175
Main Authors:	Fey, Marc E., Loeb, Diane Frome
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association February 2002
Subjects:	Language disorders Language acquisition English verbs Children's language English language Interrogative (Grammar)
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