Young children's production of head-final relative clauses: Elicited production data from Chinese children

Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 323-360

  Natalie Hsu, Chun Chieh ^a   Hermon, Gabriella ^b   Zukowski, Andrea ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; First language acquisition; Head final RCs; Sentence production

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249093772     PISSN: 09258558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10831-009-9047-y     Document Type: Article

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