The Acquisition of Complex Sentences by Holger Diessel

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences



Download The Acquisition of Complex Sentences




The Acquisition of Complex Sentences Holger Diessel
Language: English
Page: 244
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521831938, 9780521831932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This new and pathbreaking study provides the first ever comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data, Holger Diessel investigates the spontaneous speech of English-speaking children aged between two and five, examining the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and non-finite relative clauses, and co-ordinate clauses. His investigation shows that simple, non-embedded sentences gradually evolve into biclausal constructions, and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are expanded to multiple clause constructions; and adverbial and co-ordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated into a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the child's social-cognitive development.

Book Description

This new and pathbreaking study provides the first 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 and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and non-finite relative clauses, and co-ordinate clauses. He 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.

MORE EBOOKS:
Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases That Describe Your Employees' Performance ebook download
The Science of Water: Concepts and Applications, Second Edition pdf download
Download ebook: Teaching and Learning Mathematical Problem Solving







Tags: The Acquisition of Complex Sentences ebook pdf djvu epub
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences download pdf epub djvu
Download The Acquisition of Complex Sentences free ebook pdf
Read The Acquisition of Complex Sentences online book
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences cheap ebook for kindle and nook
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences download book
Holger Diessel ebooks
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences download pdf rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent