Ringstad, Tina Louise; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-29)
Norwegian embedded clauses give children two options for subject placement: preceding or
following negation (S-Neg/Neg-S). In the adult language, S-Neg is the ‘default’ and highly
frequent option, and Neg-S is infrequent in children’s input. However, Neg-S may be argued
to be the structurally less complex. We investigate whether children are aware of the
existence of both subject positions, and ...