The Acquisition of Complex Sentences
, by Holger DiesselNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521107488 | 0521107482
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/2/2009
This comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children between ages two and five. After examining the acquisition of numerous types of clauses, Holger Diessel argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the language, the complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the child's social-cognitive development.