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In this paper, I would like to outline a view of the acquisition of a particular structure — namely, relative clauses — as a sort of exemplar for a type of approach to the acquisition sequence in general. For a more extensive view of the latter, argued over a set of construction types, see (1988).
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Lebeaux, D. (1990). The Grammatical Nature of the Acquisition Sequence: Adjoin-A and the Formation of Relative Clauses. In: Frazier, L., De Villiers, J. (eds) Language Processing and Language Acquisition. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3808-6_2
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