Word order acquisition in Persian speaking children

Objectives: persian is a pro-drop language with canonical subject-object-verb (sov) word order. this study investigates the acquisition of word order in persian-speaking children. methods: in the present study,participants were 60 persian-speaking children (30 girls and 30 boys) with typically developing language skills,and aged between 30-47 months. the 30-minute language samples were audio-recorded during free play with an examiner and during description of pictures. results: object-verb (ov) and subject-verb (sv) sentence structures were the most commonly used in two-component simple sentences. sov was the most common three-component structures used by persian-speaking children. discussion: despite the fact that the spoken-persian language has no strict word order,persianspeaking children tend to use other logically possible orders of subject (s),verb (v),and object (o) lesser than the sov structure.