Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective / Edition 1

by Dagmar Bittner, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Marianne Kilani-Schoch

Overview

The volume deals with the emergence of verb morphology in children during their second and early third year of life from a cross-linguistic perspective. It covers 15 contributions - each analyzing one single language - based on parallel longitudinal investigations of children with parallel methodology and macrostructure in representation. The main question addressed is: How do children detect morphology and construct first subsystems of verbal inflection? The focus lies on the transition from a premorphological phase to a protomorphological phase. The main proposal consists in the concept of miniparadigms and of their relation to morpho-syntactic developments in early first language acquisition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110178234
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	06/19/2003
Series:	Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , #21
Edition description:	Reprint 2011
Pages:	461
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction
Dagmar Bittner, Wolfgang U. Dressler, and Marianne Kilani-Schoch

Early verb development in one Spanish-speaking child
Carmen Aguirre

Early verbal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of inflections
Ayhan Aksu-Koç and F. Nihan Ketrez

The emergence of verb inflection in two German-speaking children
Dagmar Bittner

Early phases in the development of Greek verb inflection
Anastasia Christofidou and Ursula Stephany

The early verb development and demarcation of stages in three Russian-speaking children
Natalia Gargarina

A case study of the early acquisition of verbs in Dutch
Steven Gillis

Early development of verbal morphology in an English-speaking child
Insa Gülzow

Early verb development in one Croatian-speaking child
Antigone Katičič

Early verb inflection in French: An investigation of two corpora
Marianne Kilani-Schoch

Emergence of verb paradigms in one Austrian child
Sabine Klampfer

Early verb developmentin Finnish: A preliminary approach to miniparadigms
Klaus Laalo

Acquisition of verb morphology in Italian: A case study
Sabrina Noccetti

Early acquisition of the verbal complex Yucatec Maya
Barbara Pfeiler

Early verb inflection in Lithuanian
Paweł Wójcik