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Brand, Silke; Diessel, Holger; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2008
This paper investigates the development of relative clauses in the speech of one German-speaking child aged 2 ; 0 to 5 ; 0. The earliest relative clauses we found in the data occur in topicalization constructions that are only a little different from simple sentences: they contain a single proposition, express the actor prior to other…
Descriptors: Word Order, Sentences, German, Case Studies