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Direct linkFelser, Claudia; Marinis, Theodore; Clahsen, Harald – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2003
In this study, we investigate children's and adults' relative clause attachment preferences in sentences such as "The student photographed the fan of the actress who was looking happy." Twenty-nine 6- to 7-year-old monolingual English children and 37 adult native speakers of English participated both in an auditory questionnaire study and in an…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Sentences, Nouns, Native Speakers
