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Direct linkBrandt, Silke; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Language, 2010
We investigate the development of word order in German children's spontaneous production of complement clauses. From soon after their second birthday, young German children use both verb final complements with complementizers and verb-second complements without complementizers. By their third birthday they use both kinds of complement clauses with…
Descriptors: Verbs, Word Order, German, Language Acquisition
Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2008
English and German children aged 2 years 4 months and 4 years heard both novel and familiar verbs in sentences whose form was grammatical, but which mismatched the event they were watching (e.g., "The frog is pushing the lion", when the lion was actually the "agent" or "doer" of the pushing). These verbs were then elicited in new sentences. All…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Grammar, German
