Naslov
The Acquisition of Croatian Masculine Noun Morphology in Croatian as Second Language

Autori
Cvikić, Lidija ; Kuvač, Jelena

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

Skup
VII International Conference of Language Examination and Applied Linguistics

Mjesto i datum
Dunaújváros, Mađarska, 28.04.2005. - 30.04.2005

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
noun morphology. Croatian as second language

Sažetak
The Croatian noun system differs three genders, two numbers and seven cases and the complexity of the system is manifested in a great number of paradigms, which are the result of the morphophonological rules and morphological synonymy. Much time is needed for the acquisition of such a complex system even to speakers to whom Croatian is the first language. Research showed that some paradigms of masculine nouns, the gender with the greatest number of different paradigms, are sometimes not being acquired until the age of six. So far it hasn't been systematically researched how Croatian morphology is acquired by adults who learn Croatian as second or foreign language. Some researches focused only on the typical errors which occur during the acquisition of cases regardless of the part of speech and the gender. In order to describe the acquisition of masculine nouns a test has been made, whose purpose was to inquire into production of four forms of 50 masculine nouns in four cases, Nominative and Genitive singular and plural, which have 19 different paradigms. This paper deals with the acquisition of masculine nouns by learners of Croatian as L2. Also it will be shown what strategies learners use during the inflection of unknown masculine nouns.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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