The Grammatical Nature of the Acquisition Sequence: Adjoin-A and the Formation of Relative Clauses

In this paper, I would like to outline a view of the acquisition of a particular structure — namely, relative clauses — as a sort of exemplar for a type of approach to the acquisition sequence in general. For a more extensive view of the latter, argued over a set of construction types, see (1988).

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