Naslov
Acquisition of overabundance: some preliminary results from a cross-linguistic experiment

Autori
Aigro, Mari ; Vihman, Virve ; Košutar, Sara ; Hržica, Gordana ; Bošnjak Botica, Tomislava

Kolaboracija
University of Tartu

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

Skup
Feast and Famine project workshop

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 04.05.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
Morphological overabundance ; Language acquisition ; Cross-linguistic experiment ; Croatian ; Estonian

Sažetak
It is well known that words that share morphological features support pattern formation and grammatical generalisation, thus promoting productivity. However, given the variability of input, children often overgeneralise. Sometimes they also produce overgeneralised and adult-like forms in parallel. Since more than one form per cell is attested in child language, overgeneralisation is similar to overabundance in adult language, a phenomenon in which morphological paradigm cells can be realised by more than a single lexical form. To date, no studies have been conducted to investigate how grammatical categories with overabundant cells in the input are acquired. In the present study, we investigate how children acquire inflectional systems with morphological overabundance. Four- to six-year-old children acquiring either Croatian or Estonian, two morphologically rich languages with abundant overabundance, were tested on noun forms with and without overabundance in the target language to investigate how they navigate the parallel forms and to what extent they overgeneralise with nouns which do not exhibit overabundance in adult language use. In this talk, we will present the preliminary results of the experiment conducted in Croatian and Estonian.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Logopedija, Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Filologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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