caa a22 4500 38635913X CHVBK 20180307111909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900013465 doi S0305000900013465 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900013465 Acquisition of complementation [Elektronische Daten] This study concerns the acquisition of complex sentences with perception and epistemic verbs that take a second verb in their complements. The acquisition of complementation began between two and three years of age in this longitudinal study of four children's spontaneous speech. The results of the study showed that (1) complement types and complementizer connectives and (2) the discourse contexts in which complementation occurred were specific to individual matrix verbs. The most frequent verbs acquired were the perception verbs see and look and the epistemic verbs think and know. Developments in both discourse and syntax indicated that these verbs expressed attitudes of certainty/uncertainty toward the content expressed in their complements. The results are discussed in terms of both linguistic and psychological factors in the acquisition of complex sentences with complementation. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Bloom Lois Teachers College, Columbia University Rispoli Matthew Teachers College, Columbia University Gartner Barbara Teachers College, Columbia University Hafitz Jeremie Teachers College, Columbia University Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 101-120 0305-0009 16:1<101 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013465 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013465 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bloom Lois Teachers College, Columbia University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rispoli Matthew Teachers College, Columbia University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gartner Barbara Teachers College, Columbia University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hafitz Jeremie Teachers College, Columbia University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 101-120 0305-0009 16:1<101 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge