Markedness, input frequency, and the acquisition of inflection: Evidence from Basque/Spanish bilingual children  

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Austin, Jennifer

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 3 (Jun. 2013), page 259-283.
Topik: child bilingualism; language development; morphosyntax; Basque; Spanish
Fulltext: 259-283.pdf (625.42KB)

Isi artikel

Crosslinguistically, children begin producing the person and number features of personal pronouns in a similar order. This article explored whether the same is true of verbal agreement morphology and evaluated three potential explanatory hypotheses which could account for a universal sequence of the development of phi features: the existence of an innate feature geometry, statistical properties in the input, and the organization of verbal paradigms. I examined these hypotheses in light of data from 20 bilingual children aged 2;00–3;06 years acquiring Basque and Spanish as well as child-directed speech from four adult speakers of Basque and Spanish. The results did not fit the predictions of the feature-geometric analysis nor the frequency-driven approach. However, there is evidence of paradigm building from the children’s early errors in the production of finite verbs.

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