Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition : : A Cross-Linguistic Perspective / / ed. by Ursula Stephany, Maria D. Voeikova.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Aguirre, Carmen,; Aksu-Koç, Ayhan,; Argus, Reili,; Christofidou, Anastasia,; Dressler, Wolfgang U.,; Farah, Rola,; Gagarina, Natalia,; Hržica, Gordana,; Ketrez, F. Nihan,; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne,; Korecky-Kröll, Katharina,; Kovačević, Melita,; Laalo, Klaus,; Marrero, Victoria,; Noccetti, Sabrina,; Palmović, Marijan,; Pfeiler, Barbara,; Ravid, Dorit,; Stephany, Ursula,; Voeikova, Maria D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Stephany, Ursula,; Voeikova, Maria D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; Figs. and tabs.

This book deals with the emergence of nominal morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective and is closely related to Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition (ed. by D. Bittner, W. U. Dressler, M. Kilani-Schoch) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the fundamental inflectionally expressed categories of the noun (number, case, gender) in one of the languages belonging to different morphological types (isolating, fusional-inflecting, agglutinating, root inflecting) and families (Germanic, Romance, Slavic/Baltic, Greek, Finnic, Turc, Semitic, Indian American). The analyses are based on parallel longitudinal observations of children in their second and early third year of life as well as their input. The focus lies on the transition from a pre-morphological to a proto-morphological stage in which grammatical oppositions and so-called "mini-paradigms" begin to develop. The point at which children start to discover the morphological structure of their language and the speed with which they develop inflectional distinctions of lexical items has been found to be dependent on the morphological richness of the input language on the paradigmatic as well as the syntagmatic axis of linguistic structure. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical frameworks (Natural Morphology, Usage-based theories).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations used in the present volume -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Early nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and number -- Acquisition of case and plural in Finnish -- The acquisition of numeral classifiers and optional plural marking in Yucatec Maya -- The early development of case and number in Estonian -- The acquisition of case, number, and gender in Croatian -- Acquisition of case and number in Russian -- The emergence of nominal inflection in Greek -- The acquisition of number and case in Austrian German nouns -- The emergence of nominal number in Italian -- Number morphology in Spanish first language acquisition -- Relations between the development of the category of nominal and verbal number in two French-speaking children -- Noun plurals in early Palestinian Arabic: A longitudinal case study -- Backmatter