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Children's Production of Subjects: Competence, Performance, and the Null Subject Parameter.
Valian, Virginia – 1989
A study is reported that investigated American children's use of subjects in early speech and compared this cross-sectional data to longitudinal data on Italian children's production of subjects. Twenty-one American children aged 1.10 to 2.8 years were recorded in mother-child interactions and grouped by mean length of utterance (MLU) produced.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Italian