Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax

How do children learn to understand and use complex syntactic constructions? In English, Diessel (2004) shows that they do so in two different ways. Complex sentences with dependent clauses (e.g., “Peter promised that he would come”) develop out of simple sentences that are gradually expanded into m...

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Main Authors: Alan Rumsey, Lauren W. Reed, Francesca Merlan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00019/full