Naslov
The role of the verbal class system in the acquisition of Croatian verb

Autori
Palmović, Marijan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Workshop on Pre- and Protomorphology

Mjesto i datum
Beč, Austrija, 26.02.2003. - 04.03.2003

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
usvajanje glagola; vid; glagolske vrste
(acquisition of verbs; aspect; verbal classes)

Sažetak
When you look at the files of Croatian children early language corpus, you cannot miss an interesting fact: most overgeneralizations concern verbs. Furhtermore, most of them fall into two cathegories: nearly half of the errors involve the 1st person singular present of the verb htjeti (to want) (and to a smaller extent the verb moći (to can)). The erroneous forms are *hoćem instead of hoću and *možem instead of mogu. The rest are the errors involve the verbal classes. Only a few errors concerning prefixes or derivational suffixes can be found. The article deals with the most common error - the errors regarding verbal classes. It is shown that the errors are systematic and that there is a child's logic behind it. Namely, children start with present stem forms and overgeneralize it for building forms that are bult with present stem. As the infinitive stem forms are sometimes unpredictable from the present stem forms, errors ocurr. Second, children reduce the number of verb classes, forcing verbs into the ones they already know. Additionally, children tend to hold some verbal classes as perfective and some as imperfective. Examples of these errors are presented from the child language corpus that is included into the CHILDES data bank.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Demografija, Filologija

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