Naslov
Acquisition of aspect in SLI children in Croatian

Autori
Palmović, Marijan ; Kraljević, Jelena ; Hržica, Gordana ; Kovačević, Melita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
2. meeting: Crosslinguistically robust stage of children's linguistic performance

Mjesto i datum
Berlin, Njemačka, 15.02.2007. - 17.02.2007

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
aspect; verbal system; children with SLI

Sažetak
All Croatian verbs have one of two aspects: perfective or imperfective. The aspect is expressed either lexically or morphologically, by affixation. Perfectivization of imperfective verbs and vice versa is a very productive part of derivational morphology in Croatian. In addition, prefixation is the most productive way of verbal perfectivization (e.g. pisati- na-pisati 'write' - 'write down' or paliti - u-paliti 'burn' - 'set fire') both in adult language and child language. The acquisition of prefixed verbs can be treated as a part of the acquisition of morphology. Accordingly, proper production emerges later and it is more demanding that the acquisition of the suffixes. Prefixed verbs can be treated as (un-analyzable) lexical items without child's manipulation of prefixes as morphemes. These two options will be tested on a group of 13 SLI and 13 non-SLI children on a sentence completion task. The results will show lower rate of correct answers in the SLI group and their employment of lexical substitution strategy to avoid the unknown form.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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