Acquiring Syntactic Variability: The Production of Wh-Questions in Children and Adults Speaking Akan

This paper investigates the predictions of the Derivational Complexity Hypothesis by studying the acquisition of wh-questions in 4- and 5-year-old Akan-speaking children in an experimental approach using an elicited production and an elicited imitation task. Akan has two types of wh-question structu...

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Main Authors: Paul Okyere Omane, Barbara Höhle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.604951/full