Title

Relatives Children Say

Authors

Dana McDaniel PhD, University of Southern MaineFollow
Cecile Mckee, University of ArizonaFollow
Jesse Snedeker

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Publication Title

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Abstract

In an experiment designed to elicit restrictive relatives clauses, children (N = 28, aged 2:2-3:10) provided a corpus of communicatively appropriate relative clauses. In evaluating this corpus, we found that most children produced mostly adult relative clauses most of the time. We conclude that children's ability to represent the syntactic structure of the embedded clause is on target very early.

Recommended Citation

McDaniel, Dana, et al. "Relatives Children Say." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1998, Vol. 27, no 5, pp. 573-96.