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The acquisition of relative clauses: A functional analysis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Gary D. Prideaux
Gary D. Prideaux*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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Over the past few years, research in language acquisition has shifted away from the view that linguistic structures are learned independently of semantic concepts and grammatical functions and toward a more cognitively based perspective (cf. Slobin 1973 ; Clark and Clark 1977). In the latter approach, cognitive principles are assumed to govern the acquisition of linguistic structures, and the earlier autonomous view of language acquisition is replaced by a more catholic attitude encompassing both formal and psychological aspects of language. This perspective is adopted for the analyses presented below.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , Spring 1979 , pp. 25 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1986

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