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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Sugisaki, Koji – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
In natural languages, the mapping from surface form to meaning is often quite complex, and hence the acquisition of the phenomena at the boundary between syntax and semantics has been one of the central issues in current acquisition research. This study addresses the issue of whether children have adult-like knowledge of LF "wh"-movement and its…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Japanese, Preschool Children
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Sugisaki, Koji – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
The acquisition of word order has been one of the central issues in the study of child language. One striking finding from the detailed investigation of various child languages is that from the earliest observable stages, children are highly sensitive to the basic word order of their target language. However, the evidence so far comes mainly from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Word Order, Language Acquisition, Japanese
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Sugisaki, Koji; Snyder, William – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2006
In this squib we examine the time course of children's acquisition of English to evaluate the basic insights of Kayne's (1981; 1984) proposals on preposition stranding. Kayne argued that the availability of preposition stranding (P-stranding) in English is parametrically linked to the availability of double object datives and the prepositional…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Child Language, Language Patterns