Abstract:
The present research contrasts child and adult speech with respect to the position fr subject noun-phrases in relationship to verb typology. This study analyzes a tape-recorded sample of thirty six hours of child language productions. The children, aged three to six, are native speakers of Spanish, born to Venezuelan, middle-class Spanish-speaking parents. Our findings show that nominal phrases longer than seven syllables which have the S role and codify inanimate inactive referents have a high probability of appearing after the verb.
