Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Studies on Language Acquisition)

✍ Scribed by Ursula Stephany and Maria D. Voeikova (Editors)

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter (Mouton de Gruyter)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 461
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition volume 30
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The crosslinguistic studies of the early developmental stages of number, case, and gender in twelve typologically different languages with eight genetic affiliations follow a functional-constructivist approach. Some issues addressed are mean size of paradigms, percentage of base forms, and productivity. One of the main findings is that the typological characteristics of the language acquired influence the process of inflectional development.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of abbreviations used in the present volume......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Early nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and number......Page 28
Acquisition of case and plural in Finnish......Page 62
The acquisition of numeral classifiers and optional plural marking in Yucatec Maya......Page 104
The early development of case and number in Estonian......Page 124
The acquisition of case, number, and gender in Croatian......Page 166
Acquisition of case and number in Russian......Page 192
The emergence of nominal inflection in Greek......Page 230
The acquisition of number and case in Austrian German nouns......Page 278
The emergence of nominal number in Italian......Page 316
Number morphology in Spanish first language acquisition......Page 354
Relations between the development of the category of nominal and verbal number in two French-speaking children......Page 384
Noun plurals in early Palestinian Arabic: A longitudinal case study......Page 424
Subject Index
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