Author Question: For children learning English, center-embedded relative clauses are a. harder than ... (Read 73 times)

chads108 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

For children learning English, center-embedded relative clauses are

a. harder than right-branching relative clauses, for both subject gap and object gap relative clauses
b. harder than right-branching relative clauses, but only for object gap relative clauses
c. easier than right-branching relative clauses, for both subject gap and object gap relative clauses
d. easier than right-branching relative clauses, but only for object gap relative clauses

Question 2

Preschoolers are UNLIKELY to use a request such as Gimme that crayon with

a. a younger child
b. an older child they are trying to boss around
c. a puppet that represents a high status person
d. a puppet that represents a low status person