The Acquisition of WH questions by Persian and English speaking children

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Elham Pirbeig Darvishvanda ¹ , Ramin Rahmany ²

1 - Department of English Language and Literature, College of Humanities, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran
2 - , Department of English Language and Literature, College of Humanities, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran

Received: 2017-03-12 Accepted : 2017-04-18 Published : 2017-06-01

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