A Study on Children’s syntactic Development : Focused on three years of single case data

This paper confirmed children"s development process of syntax as follows. Children forms a simple sentence first, an embedded sentence next, and they speak a conjoined sentence last. The rule applied to formation of the simple sentence is reflected in the embedded sentence and the conjoined sentence just as it used for the former. The simple sentence is marked on the sentence in order of "predicate> adnominal>adverb> subject> object". The embedded sentence to which the rule for the simple sentence applied occurred in order of an adnominal clause embedded sentence> an adverbial clause embedded sentence> a noun clause embedded sentence. For the conjoined sentence, the subordinate conjoined sentence is first, and the coordinate conjoined sentence is next. The coordinate conjoined sentence is two complete sentences that the relation of two clauses is independent, so it seems to occur very last step.