Children's Learning of SAI

Once children have lexically acquired auxiliary verbs, they quickly begin to acquire what are referred to as SAI triggers, thence beginning to form interrogative statements, or WH-phrases (599). Errors made in the early-stage use of WH-phrases indicate "that the function of the auxiliary has not been grasped" (600) at the level of syntax. Acquisition of adult-like WH-movement is distinguished from "formulaic WH expressions" (603) and involves evidence of the ability to select an appropriate semantic complement that is not tied to the formula or an auxiliary verb with a verb that is already used without WH-words. Both WH-movement and acquisition of the auxiliary system appear to be grasped at approximately the same time in language development.

Order of acquisition or developmental sequence of WH-words in children's language acquisition has been identified as follows: (a) what/where; (b) why/how; (c) who; (d) which X/how X. The developmental sequence has been attributed to such variables as "frequency of input" (607). In this view, what and where are associated with

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