Acquisition of prepositions and question words in Czech - a parent-report study

Abstract

The poster presented data from two parental-report questionnaires focused on acquisition of prepositions and question words in Czech. The research includes children from 18 to 48 months of age.

The study tests different factors which influence acquisition of prepositions and question words, such as parents' education, children's gender and birth order, frequency of prepositions and question words in child-directed speech.

Keywords

• first language acquisition, prepositions
• question words
• grammatical categories in Czech