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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 105

LinguisticsChild PsychologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0521831938
ISBN13: 9780521831932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 2 2004
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
This comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children between ages two and five. After examining the acquisition of numerous types of clauses, Holger Diessel argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the language, the complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the child's social-cognitive development.

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