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

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] Series , #21
Edition description:	Reprint 2011
Pages:	461
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years