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