An Investigation of the Word Order Parameter of a Parent-Child Verbal Interaction in a Relatively Free Order Language
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 17 (2) , 182-186
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383097401700210
Abstract
A number of investigators have assumed that the relatively free word order of a given language was the relatively free word order which the child encountered during his language acquisition period. This study investigated the word order of a Hebrew speaker's verbal interaction with (1) his 2 year old daughter (2) an adult. The results show the father to use a relatively free word order in his verbal interaction with the adult and a fairly rigid word-order (S-V-O) in his verbal interaction with his child. Some possible interpretations are discussed.Keywords
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