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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Diessel, Holger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany)
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Diessel, Holger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany)
This pathbreaking study provides a comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Holger Diessel investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children aged between two and five, examining the acquisition of infinitival, participial and finite complement clauses, finite and non-finite relative clauses, and co-ordinate clauses.
242 pages, 12 b/w illus. 72 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 2, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521831932 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 535 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Austin, P. |
| Series Editor | Bresnan, J. |
| Series Editor | Comrie, B. |
| Series Editor | Crain, S. |
| Series Editor | Dressler, W. |
| Series Editor | Ewen, C. J. |
| Series Editor | Lass, R. |
| Series Editor | Lightfoot, David |
| Series Editor | Rice, K. |