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Peer reviewedBloom, Lois; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Reports a study of two- and three-year-olds' acquisition of complex sentences with perception and epistemic verbs that took a second verb in their complements. Complement types, complementizer connectives, and the discourse contexts in which complementation occurred were specific to individual matrix verbs. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Acquisition
