Elicited Production of Case-Marking in Russian and Serbian Children: Are Diminutive Nouns Easier to Inflect?  

Oleh:

Kempe, Vera ; Seva, Nada ; Brooks, Patricia J. ; Mironova, Natalija ; Pershukova, Angelina ; Fedorova, Olga

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 2 (May 2010), page 147-165.
Topik: Case-marking; child-directed speech; diminutives; Russian; Serbian
Fulltext: Vol 29, no (2), page 147–165.pdf (231.17KB)

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Two experiments used an elicited speech-production paradigm to explore children’s acquisition of noun case-marking inflections. Russian (N = 24, 2;10– 4;6 years) and Serbian children (N = 24, 2;10–4;11) were asked to produce prepositional phrases requiring genitive or dative inflections of masculine and feminine, familiar and novel, simplex (vaza [Ru/Se: vase]) and diminutive (Ru: vazochka, Se: vazica) nouns. Across languages, children produced fewer case-marking errors with familiar compared to novel nouns, and diminutive compared to simplex nouns. The diminutive advantage occurred despite a markedly lower frequency of diminutive usage in Serbian than Russian childdirected speech. This suggests that in acquiring richly inflected languages, children most readily construct low-level generalizations of inflectional changes applying to morpho-phonologically homogeneous clusters of words like diminutives.

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