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Two types of wh-omission in first language acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2016

Yves Roberge  and
Nelleke Strik
Yves Roberge
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Nelleke Strik
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University
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Omission of various components of a sentence is a common phenomenon in first language (LI) acquisition across different languages. Omission can affect arguments, such as subjects and objects, as well as functional elements, such as determiners and inflectional morphology (Borer and Rohrbacher 2002, Pérez-Leroux et al. 2008, among others).

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , July 2014 , pp. 263 - 272
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association. 2015

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