Naslov
On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

Autori
Xanthos, Aris ; Laaha, Sabine ; Gillis, Steven ; Stephany, Ursula ; Aksu-Koç, Ayhan ; Christofidou, Anastasia ; Gagarina, Natalia ; Hržica, Gordana ; Ketrez, Nihan F. ; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne ; Korecky-Kröll, Katharina ; Kovačević, Melita ; Laalo, Klaus ; Palmović, Marijan ; Pfeiler, Barbara ; Voeikova, Maria D. ; Dressler, Wolfgang U.

Izvornik
First language (0142-7237) 31 (2011), 2; 461-479

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
language acquisition; morphological richness

Sažetak
This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child- directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child- directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of nine children and their caretakers. The children are aged 1 ; 3–3 ; 0, acquiring nine different languages that vary in terms of morphological richness. The main result is that the degree of morphological richness in child-directed speech is positively related to the speed of development of noun and verb paradigms in child speech.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Filologija

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