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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 – Developmental Science, 2004
Childers and Tomasello (2001) found that training 2 1/2-year-olds on the English transitive construction greatly improves their performance on a post-test in which they must use novel verbs in that construction. In the current study, we replicated Childers and Tomasello's finding, but using a much lower frequency of transitive verbs and models in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Familiarity, Syntax
