acquisition of questions with a relative clause

[Tornyova, Lidiya]

We are looking for acquisition data (from English or other languages) on when children acquire do-support and auxiliary inversion in questions (yes/no or wh-) with a relative clause, e.g., Does the boy who plays the drum want a cookie? 

We also want to know when children acquire auxiliary inversion in questions containing an object-gap relative construction such as “Is the wagon that your sister is pushing red?” 

Any help with references and data would be highly appreciated.

Thank you!

Xuân-Nga Cao Kam, Iglika Stoyneshka, Janet Dean Fodor, William Sakas, and Lidiya Tornyova

Ph.D. Program in Linguistics 
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
e-mail contact: ltornyova at gc.cuny.edu
 

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