Subject-auxiliary inversion errors and wh-question acquisition: 'What children do know?'

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 157-181

  Rowland, Caroline F ^a   Pine, Julian M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034134010     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000999004055     Document Type: Article

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