The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: A developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar - HSIAO, Yaling; DAWSON, Nicola J.; BANERJI, Nilanjana; NATION, Kate (Journal of child language, 2023)
Keywords: Animacy; Child-directed speech; Children & youth; Childrens picture books; Corpus analysis; Discourse functions; Educational Attainment; Grammar; Language Acquisition; Language usage; Linguistic Input; Linguistics; Native language acquisition; Nonfiction; Nouns; Preschool children; Reading instruction; Reading Materials; Relative clauses; Shared reading; Speech; Spoken language; Syntactic complexity; Syntactic features; Syntactic processing; Verbal communication; Written language; reading; relative clauses; child-directed speech; corpus analysis; sentence processing; grammatical development