engleski

Acquisition of verbal system in Croatian SLI children

Studies of common language acquisition in Croatian showed that verbs are becoming dominant very early, namely taking prevalence over nouns. It has been documented that child in early language development produces very limited number of errors despite complex morphology. In addition to this fact, most of the produced errors in verbal system can be attributed as errors of overgeneralization. This paper was focused on production of verb aspect in SLI children of preschool age. In Croatian verbs have two aspects, perfective and inperfective. Perfectiveness can be expressed in two ways either by prefixation or lexically. Prefixation is the most productive form and, as such, it is most frequent, both in adult language and child language. Although prefixation is very present and productive in language, it has been prooved to be a source of difficulties for SLI children. On the other side, the intuitively gained knowledge identified different strategies used by SLI children when compared to children with common language development. According to those facts, the intention of this paper was to twofolded. Firstly, to identify token and type of errors in perfective prefixed verbs. Secondly, to identify a backgound of those errors, are they semantically/lexically or morphologically driven.

SLI; Croatian language; verbal system

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