Stephany / Voeikova Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition

A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021711-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 459 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]ISSN

This book deals with the emergence of nominal morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective and is closely related to (ed. by D. Bittner, W. U. Dressler, M. Kilani-Schoch) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the fundamental inflectionally expressed categories of the noun (number, case, gender) in one of the languages belonging to different morphological types (isolating, fusional-inflecting, agglutinating, root inflecting) and families (Germanic, Romance, Slavic/Baltic, Greek, Finnic, Turc, Semitic, Indian American). The analyses are based on parallel longitudinal observations of children in their second and early third year of life as well as their input. The focus lies on the transition from a pre-morphological to a proto-morphological stage in which grammatical oppositions and so-called "mini-paradigms" begin to develop. The point at which children start to discover the morphological structure of their language and the speed with which they develop inflectional distinctions of lexical items has been found to be dependent on the morphological richness of the input language on the paradigmatic as well as the syntagmatic axis of linguistic structure. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical frameworks (Natural Morphology, Usage-based theories).

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics, espe

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephany, Ursula

Voeikova, Maria D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;List of abbreviations used in the present volume;7
4;Contributors;9
5;Introduction;13
6;Early nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and number;27
7;Acquisition of case and plural in Finnish;61
8;The acquisition of numeral classifiers and optional plural marking in Yucatec Maya;103
9;The early development of case and number in Estonian;123
10;The acquisition of case, number, and gender in Croatian;165
11;Acquisition of case and number in Russian;191
12;The emergence of nominal inflection in Greek;229
13;The acquisition of number and case in Austrian German nouns;277
14;The emergence of nominal number in Italian;315
15;Number morphology in Spanish first language acquisition;353
16;Relations between the development of the category of nominal and verbal number in two French-speaking children;383
17;Noun plurals in early Palestinian Arabic: A longitudinal case study;423
18;Backmatter;445

Über Autor(innen)

Ursula Stephany, University of Cologne, Germany; Maria Voeikova, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.