Holger Diessel, "The Acquisition of Complex Sentences"
2004 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0521831938 | PDF | 0,8 mb[/center]

This comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children between ages two and five. After examining the acquisition of numerous types of clauses, Holger Diessel 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.