Acquisition of the Passive

This single-subject pilot study, modeled after de Villiers' 1973, investigates the subject's acquisition of the passive construction (i.e., 'The boy was hit by the girl', as opposed to The girl hit the boy'). The purposes was to determine and analyze the subject's level...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Francine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1998-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/348