A Longitudinal Study of the Acquisition of English Interrogative Sentences and Relative Clauses by Japanese-English Bilingual Children

对一名5-12岁的日英双语儿童所说的含有客观关系从句的话语进行了分析。

Utterances containing an objective relative clause which a Japanese-English bilingual child produced between ages 5-12 were analyzed. Results show the following: The child (a) produced far more OO-type than SO-type relative clauses; (b) used the relative pronoun what first, followed by the contact clauses and that; (c) produced very few relativized noun phrases without main clauses; (d) used the pronoun I most frequently as the subject of relative clauses; (e) frequently used what or nouns ending with -thing as antecedents but also used other nouns; and (f) produced resumptive pronouns and dropped required prepositions in relative clauses.