Developing structural specification: Productivity in early Hebrew verb usage  

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Lustigman, Lyle

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 1 (Feb. 2013), page 47-67.
Topik: early grammar; Hebrew; inflections; morphology–syntax interface; productivity
Fulltext: p. 47-67.pdf (749.18KB)

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The study investigates acquisition of verb inflections by four monolingual Hebrewacquiring children from middle-class backgrounds, audio-recorded in longitudinal, weekly samples at a mean age-range of between 18 and 26 months. Productive use of inflectional morphology is shown to manifest increasing structural specification, as a function of children’s developing knowledge of morphology–syntax interfaces illustrated by Subject–Verb agreement. The verbs used by all four children evolve from nonspecified stem-like forms via sporadic structural alternations to initial productivity in the use of largely under-specified inflected forms. This process of increasing structural specification is interpreted as reflecting paradigmatic/syntagmatic interfacings in developing grammatical productivity, such that eventually a full range of inflectional contrasts is manifested in all and only appropriate syntactic environments.

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