
ERIC Number: EJ578049
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Publication Date: 1998
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Subjectless Sentences in Child Danish.
Hamann, Cornelia; Plunkett, Kim
Cognition, v69 n1 p35-72 Nov 1998
Examined data for two Danish children to determine subject omission, verb usage, and sentence subjects. Found that children exhibit asymmetry in subject omission according to verb type as subjects are omitted from main verb utterances more frequently than from copula utterances. Concluded that treatment of child subject omission should involve integration of grammatical and discourse-based approaches. (LBT)
Descriptors: Danish, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Sentence Structure, Structural Grammar, Verbs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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