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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>For all those interested the book I was
looking for...</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The reason I couldn't find it was that I had the
title slightly wrong and I thought it was a journal article.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is a book and what I though was an article is
actually one of the chapters...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tavakolian, S.
Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory </FONT></DIV>
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size=2> Mass.
M.I.T. Press 1981</FONT></DIV>
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Ctrl no. 0262200392 </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here are the suggestions for other books that I
received...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Again - thanks for the responses - they were very
helpful!)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tavakolian's position (the
conjoined-clause<BR>analysis) is outlined in some detail in more recent,
probably more widely<BR>available, publications. You might want to look
at:<BR><BR>Lebeaux, D. (1990). The grammatical nature of the acquisition
sequence:<BR>adjoin-a and the formation of the relative clause. In L. Frazier
& J. De<BR>Villiers (eds.). "Language processing and language acquisition".
(pp 13 -<BR>82). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.<BR><BR>Correa, L. (1995). An
alternative assessment of children's comprehension of<BR>relative clauses.
"Journal of Psycholinguistic Research", 24, 183 - 203.<BR><BR>Correa, L. (1995).
The relative difficulty of children's comprehension of<BR>relative clauses: A
procedural account. In: K. Nelson & Z. Reger (eds.).<BR>"Children's language
(Vol. 8)". (pp. 225 - 243). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.<BR><BR>Crain, S. &
Thornton, R. (1998). "Investigation in universal grammar".<BR>Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press<BR><BR>(from Evan Kidd)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"If you are interested, my dissertation extract
was<BR>published in J of Verbal learning and Vbl BehAVIOR, I think),
which<BR>morphed into another title. Sheldon The acquisition of relative
clauses<BR>in English JVLVB 1974. You might be able to find
Taval=kolian online. I<BR>think she got her dissertation at U Mass or maybe MIT
before the book<BR>publication data.<BR> AS"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(from Amy Sheldon)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope this was helpful</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jenni Harvey<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>