A cross-linguistic observation about the acquisition of relative clauses is that different types emerge at different points in time. Those involving a subject dependency (as in (1a)) are acquired early, whereas those involving an object dependency are acquired later (1b) (see Adani, van der Lely, Forgiarini, & Guasti 2010; Adani 2011; Arnon 2005, 2009; Arosio, Guasti, & Stucchi 2011; Bentea, Du...