On the acquisition of WH-questions

dc.contributor.author	Hanna, Ken
dc.contributor.author	Wilhelm, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-16T21:53:50Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-16T21:53:50Z
dc.date.issued	1992-09
dc.description.abstract	This 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.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Hanna, K., & Wilhelm, A. (1992). On the acquisition of WH-questions. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 15(Fall), 89-98.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28901
dc.identifier.issn	2371-2643
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51356
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.publisher.department	Linguistics	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.subject	Linguistics	en_US
dc.subject	Language acquisition	en_US
dc.subject	Syntax	en_US
dc.title	On the acquisition of WH-questions	en_US
dc.type	journal article