ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two issues of children's deviant questions. In this context, beside data from Early English (EE), It considers data from Early Italian and point out the relevance of the cross-linguistic perspective in studies of language development. Three possible non-adult structures could be expected: In this section, we focus on the status of the specifier component of the wh-criterion in EE. Later, the chapter examines the errors and provides an interpretation for them. In this respect, as pointed out by Stromswold, It concludes that there is no evidence for the first of Bellugi's stages, namely one in which subject and the auxiliary (SAI) or the head component of the wh-criterion is missing from children's grammar. On the basis of these data, the chapter confidently concludes that the Italian-speaking children also conform to the requirement of the head component of the wh-criterion from their earliest questions.
