“…Medial wh-constructions were first attested in child L1 English by see also McDaniel et al, 1995) and included wh-copying, as in (2), and wh-scope marking, as in (3). 2 Similar constructions were subsequently attested in the L1 acquisition of other languages, including Dutch (Jakubowicz and Strik, 2008;van Kampen, 1997), French (Jakubowicz and Strik, 2008;Oiry and Demirdache, 2006), Spanish (Gutierrez, 2004a), and Basque (Gutierrez, 2004b). 3 Furthermore, studies have shown that such constructions may also exist in the L2 English of speakers whose L1s include Japanese (Schulz, 2006;Wakabayashi and Okawara, 2003;Yamane, 2003), German (Schulz, 2006), and bilingual Spanish/Basque (Gutierrez, 2005).…”