Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Researchers have long been puzzled by the challenge English passive constructions
present for language learners, with adult-like comprehension and production emerging only …

This study investigates the elicited production of subject (SRs) and object relatives (ORs) in
Italian by 13 cochlear-implanted (CI) children (age: 7; 9–10; 8) to determine whether and to …

This paper investigates the comprehension and the production of passive sentences in
Italian-speaking children (aged 3 years, 4 months to 6 years, 2 months) analyzing both the …

Anna Cardinaletti & Francesca Volpato is study investigates the comprehension and
production of relative clauses and passive sentences by a group of 10 university students …

Researchers have long debated the mechanisms underlying the learning of syntactic
structure. Of significant interest has been the fact that passive constructions appear to be …

This study investigated the long-term effects of structural priming on children's use of indirect
speech clauses in a narrative context. Forty-two monolingual English-speaking 5-year-olds …

A verb that's passivizable is often one that can be used transitively (ie, it allows an object).
For example, eat is both passivizable (It was/got eaten) and (optionally) transitive (I ate it) …

Early studies on the acquisition of passives focused on the use of actional (comb, scratch,
touch) vs. non-actional verbs (see, remember) and on the presence vs. absence of the by …

We used the elicited production task to explore the production of short and long passives in
15 Mandarin-speaking preschool children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD; …