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At a very young age, children are capable of producing utterances, which we could hardly improve upon. The following sentences were spoken by a small German boy named Valle who was about 26 months old at the time:1
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Penner, Z., Tracy, R., Weissenborn, J. (2000). Where Scrambling Begins: Triggering Object Scrambling at the Early Stage in German and Bernese Swiss German. In: Powers, S.M., Hamann, C. (eds) The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3232-1_6
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