On the Acquisition of Word Order in Wh-questions in the Tromsø Dialect

It has been shown in various studies that word order is generally acquired very early (see e.g. Pinker 1984, 1994, Radford 1990). In English for example, SVO word order is produced by children from the very beginning of their multi-word utterances, and other orders are more or less unattested

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Main Author: Marit R. Westergaard
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Summary:It has been shown in various studies that word order is generally acquired very early (see e.g. Pinker 1984, 1994, Radford 1990). In English for example, SVO word order is produced by children from the very beginning of their multi-word utterances, and other orders are more or less unattested