Protosyntactic Devicesin the Acquisition of Italian Free Morphology  

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Cipriani, Paola ; Chilosi, Anna Maria ; Bottari, Piero

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 3 no. 4 (1994), page 327-370.
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This article concerns the production of schwa-like elements (Monosyllabic k Place Holders, MPHs) before lexical items in early utterances of Italian ~ children. These elements perform the function of protomorphemes, a role \ testified to by several facts, including the complementary distribution between !: them and free grammatical morphemes over time. These findings consistently I support the idea that functional categories emerge very early and that virtually no "prefunctional" stage needs to be hypothesized for early combinatorial speech. The purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to show that MPHs do not stem from imitation but actually retain important grammatical properties of functional free morphemes, and (b) to show that in the development of free, morphology certain syntactic (positional) properties, via the MPH strategy, emerge before full assessment of morphophonological paradigms take place. This implies that learning morphology cannot be conceived of solely as proceeding through a series of inferences about the distributional properties of the single morphological items.

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