To examine whether children's acquisition of perspective-marking language supports development in their ability to reason about mental states, we conducted a longitudinal study testing whether ...

The purpose of this research was to provide a comprehensive description of complement-clause production in children with language impairment. Complement clauses were examined with respect to types of ...

Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States (4) a. My brother wanted to know [who Ruth will bring us home to __ at Christmas]. b. My brother ...

We investigate the development of word order in German children's spontaneous production of complement clauses. From soon after their second birthday, young German children use both verb-final ...

1 MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2 Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University, ...

Journal of Linguistics has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. The journal also provides an excellent survey of ...

ABSTRACT: Despite the widespread application of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) in various text analyses, there exists a dearth of reviews concerning critical syntactic issues within SFG. These ...