Development of word order in German complement-clause constructions
Effects of input frequencies, lexical items, and discourse function
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2968623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silke Brandt (0000-0003-3363-8740, Max Planck Society), Elena Lieven (0000-0002-2270-8910, Max Planck Society), M Tomasello (0000-0002-1649-088X, Max Planck Society) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 583-610 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2010.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W1978248162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 47 |
We investigate the development of word order in German children's spontaneous production of complement clauses. From soon after their second birthday, young German children use both verb-final complements with complementizers and verb-second complements without complementizers. By their third birthday they use both kinds of complement clauses with a variety of complement-taking verbs. Early in development, however, verb-final complements and verb-second complements are used with separate sets of complement-taking verbs, and they are used with separate sets of item-specific main-clause phrases. For example, initially phrases such as 'I want to see' were used exclusively with verb-final complements, whereas phrases such as 'do you see' and 'you have to say' were used exclusively with verb-second complements. Only later in development- when specific complement-taking verbs were used with both verb-second and verb-final complements, with a greater variety of main-clause phrases, and when specific main-clause phrases were used with both verb-second and verb-final complements-was there evidence for structural links between these various, item-based, complement-clause constructions
Complement (music) · Dependent clause · German · Linguistics · Modal verb · Sentence · Variety (cybernetics) · Verb · Word order · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |