Cognition and Phonology in Acquisition of Plurals and Possessives by Luo Children  

Oleh:

Blount, Ben G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 1 (1988), page 225-240.
Fulltext: 10_01_Blount.pdf (874.42KB)

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At least two kinds of cognitive operations are utilized by children in their acquisition of the productive bound morphemes of their language. One is a set of strategies to generalize the application of the forms to appropriate lexico-grammatical categories. These include rote memory, combination, and analogy. Another set of cognitive operations involves the phonological changes that occur in alExation. A test using nonce forms in morphophonology was administered to Luo-speaking children in Kenya. The results indicate that morphophonological processes in the acquisitions of Luo plurals and possessives present different degrees of difficulty for the children. Difficulty is defined by later acquisition. The easiest change is addition of homorganic stops or affricates to stem-final nasal. The second easiest change is voicing, either a change from voiced to unvoiced or from unvoiced to voiced of stem-final consonant. The most difficult change was phone substitution, i.e. a change in mode and place of articulation. The type of morphophonological alteration in a language is thus likely to affect the rate and order of acquisition.

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