You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Children of ages four, six, and eight years and college students attempted to imitate sentences containing combinations of nested and self-embedded relative clauses. Asymmetries in performance predicted from extensions of previous research were obtained at all ages. The hypothesis that these differences might be attributable to two structural characteristics of clause-containing sentences was supported by correlational analyses.