Journal article
On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection
- Xanthos, Aris University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Laaha, Sabine Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- Gillis, Steven University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Stephany, Ursula University of Cologne, Germany
- Aksu-Koç, Ayhan Yeditepe University and Boğaziçi University, Turkey
- Christofidou, Anastasia Greek Academy of Sciences, Greece
- Gagarina, Natalia Centre for General Linguistics and Typology (ZAS), Germany
- Hrzica, Gordana University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Ketrez, F. Nihan Yale University, USA
- Kilani-Schoch, Marianne University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Korecky-Kröll, Katharina Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- Kovacˇevic´, Melita University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Laalo, Klaus University of Tampere, Finland
- Palmovic´, Marijan University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Pfeiler, Barbara National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
- Voeikova, Maria D. Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Dressler, Wolfgang U. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- 2011-6-20
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- First Language. - SAGE Publications. - 2011, vol. 31, no. 4, p. 461-479
English
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.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1177/0142723711409976
- ISSN 0142-7237
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/29793
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