| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 105
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 105.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-219) and index. |
| Contents |
A dynamic network model of grammatical constructions -- Towards a definition of complex sentences and subordinate clauses -- Infinitival and participial complement constructions -- Complement clauses -- Relative clauses -- Adverbial and co-ordinate clauses. |
| Summary |
This new and pathbreaking study provides the first ever 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Language acquisition. |
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Children -- Language.
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Children -- Language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentences.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentences. |
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English language -- Acquisition.
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English language -- Acquisition. |
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English language -- Sentences.
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English language -- Sentences. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Diessel, Holger. Acquisition of complex sentences. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2005277015 |
| ISBN |
0511230540 (electronic book) |
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9780511230547 (electronic book) |
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0511231318 (electronic book) |
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9780511231315 (electronic book) |
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0511228929 |
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9780511228926 |
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0511229763 |
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9780511229763 |
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9780511486531 (ebook) |
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0511486537 (ebook) |
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9780521831932 (hardback) |
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0521831938 (hardback) |
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9786610703043 |
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6610703043 |
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0521831938 (Cloth) |
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