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Publication details [#10529]

Bowerman, Melissa. 1986. First steps in acquiring conditionals. In Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Alice ter Meulen, Judy Snitzer Reilly and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. On conditionals. Cambridge University Press. pp. 285–307.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conditional utterance | first language acquisition | if-clause

Annotation

Why do 'if-then'-constructions emerge late in children's speech? And what are the meanings of children's early conditional utterances, from a cross-linguistic perspective?