This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire
complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from
English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates
the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses,
finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses,
adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows
that the development of complex sentences originates from simple
non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental
pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including
complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that
are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and
complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses
develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific
biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is
determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various
complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and
syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the
communicative functions of complex sentences, and the
social-cognitive development of the child.
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