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C McKee1, D McDaniel, J Snedeker

  • 1University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics, Tucson 85721, USA.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|September 29, 1998
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Children quickly master complex sentence structures, producing adult-like relative clauses early in language development. A few errors in relative pronouns suggest a specific developmental pattern, but overall syntactic representation is robust.

Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Understanding the developmental trajectory of complex syntactic structures in children is crucial for theories of language acquisition.
  • Relative clauses are complex grammatical constructions that pose challenges for young learners.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the early production of restrictive relative clauses in young children.
  • To identify and analyze error patterns in children's use of relative clauses.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment elicited relative clauses from 28 children aged 2;2 to 3;10.
  • A corpus of children's utterances was analyzed for accuracy and error patterns.

Main Results:

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  • Most children produced mostly adult-like relative clauses.
  • One systematic error pattern involved inappropriate relative pronouns.
  • Other errors were infrequent and varied.

    • Conclusions:

    • Children demonstrate an early ability to represent the syntactic structure of embedded clauses.
    • The findings suggest that complex syntax is acquired robustly and early in development.