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。研究结果表明：儿童(A)使用关系代词What First，紧随其后的是That和That的OO型关系从句比SO型关系从句多得多；(C)使用关系代词短语中没有主句的关系名词短语很少；(D)最常使用代词I作为关系从句的主语；(E)经常使用What或以-thing结尾的名词作为先行词，但也使用其他名词；(F)使用恢复代词，省略了关系从句中的必要介词。

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.