Volume 15, Fall 1992
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- ItemOpen AccessCalgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 15, Fall 1992(University of Calgary, 1992-09) Prevost, Margrit; Rogmans, Siv M; Rowsell, Lorna VThe editors of this issue, Siv M. Rogmans, Margrit Prevost, and Loma V. Rowsell, are pleased to present the fifteenth issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers published here represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive. All the contributors to this issue are or have been associated with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The collection of essays is quite diverse, drawing from several language families and different areas of linguistic study.
- ItemOpen AccessOn the acquisition of WH-questions(University of Calgary, 1992-09) Hanna, Ken; Wilhelm, AndreaThis paper is the account of a study carried out in 1990 in which we tried to gain further insight into the acquisition of subject and object wh-questions. We differentiated between two wh-words, who and what, for subject and object questions. The study consisted of a production and a comprehension task and was carried out with 11 children aged between 3;4 and 4;7 years. The results suggest that children find subject questions easier to produce and comprehend than object questions. In addition, the animate question pronoun who was used more often than the inanimate question pronoun what.