The early acquisition of Spanish verbal morphology: Across-the-board or piecemeal knowledge?.  

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Soto, Pilar ; Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 3 no. 2-3 (Jun. 1999), page 133-182.
Topik: morphology; Spanish; verbs
Fulltext: International Journal of Bilingualism 1999 3 133-182.pdf (1.05MB)

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This paper examines the earliest uses of verbal morphology in an inflectional language, Spanish. Stringent criteria are applied to data from two children to determine what inflections are used productively. Analyses reveal that there is little productive command of verbal morphology at early ages and that subjects begin with a single form per verb. When elements of the verb paradigm do begin to become productive, they do so in a very gradual, piecemeal fashion. Finally, what governs which aspects of the paradigm are learned early seems to be a complex interaction of the input with cognitive and linguistic complexity.

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