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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

By Holger Diessel

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521831938, 9780521831932, 9780511231315
LCC
P118 .D55 2004
Open Library ID
OL22599460M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
869 kB (890192 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in linguistics 105
Pages
244\244
Library
avaxhome.ws
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This new and pathbreaking study provides the first ever comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data, Holger Diessel investigates the spontaneous speech of English-speaking children aged between two and five, examining the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and non-finite relative clauses, and co-ordinate clauses. His investigation shows that simple, non-embedded sentences gradually evolve into biclausal constructions, and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are expanded to multiple clause constructions; and adverbial and co-ordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated into a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the child's social-cognitive development.

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