On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection  

Oleh:

Xanthos, Aris ; Laaha, Sabine ; Gillis, Steven ; Stephany, Ursula ; Gagarina, Natalia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 31 no. 4 (Nov. 2011), page 461–479.
Topik: child-directed speech; language typology; mean size of paradigm; morphological development; morphological richness
Fulltext: p. 461-479.pdf (524.2KB)

Isi artikel

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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