The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

Holger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany) Diessel

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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This pathbreaking study provides a comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Holger Diessel investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children aged between two and five, examining the acquisition of infinitival, participial and finite complement clauses, finite and non-finite relative clauses, and co-ordinate clauses.

ISBN-13
9780521831932
ISBN-10
0521831938
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
Publication date
2004-09-02
Pages
244
Dimensions
236x162x22
Weight
514