Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Studies on Language Acquisition)

461 Pages·2009·2.29 MB·English

by  Ursula Stephany

Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition
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Studies on Language Acquisition
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Editor
Peter Jordens
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
Development of Nominal Inflection
in First Language Acquisition
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Edited by
Ursula Stephany
Maria D. Voeikova
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
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ISBN978-3-11-018840-0(hardcover:alk.paper)
1.Languages,Modern(cid:2)Inflection. 2.Grammar,Comparativeand
general(cid:2)Inflection. 3.Grammar,Comparativeandgeneral(cid:2)Noun.
4.Languageacquisition. I.Stephany,Ursula. II.Voeikova,M.D.
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Contents
Listofabbreviations vii
Contributors ix
Introduction
UrsulaStephanyandMariaD.Voeikova 1
Earlynominalmorphology inTurkish: Emergenceofcaseandnumber
F.NihanKetrezandAyhanAksu-Koc¸ 15
AcquisitonofcaseandpluralinFinnish
KlausLaalo 49
Theacquisition ofnumeralclassifiersandoptional pluralmarking
inYucatecMaya
BarbaraPfeiler 91
TheearlydevelopmentofcaseandnumberinEstonian
ReiliArgus 111
Theacquisition ofcase,numberandgenderinCroatian
MelitaKovacˇevic´,Marijan Palmovic´,andGordanaHrzˇica 153
AcquisitionofcaseandnumberinRussian
NataliaGagarina andMariaD.Voeikova 179
TheemergenceofnominalinflectioninGreek
UrsulaStephanyandAnastasia Christofidou 217
Theacquisition ofnumberandcaseinAustrianGermannouns
KatharinaKorecky-Kro¨llandWolfgang U.Dressler 265
TheemergenceofnominalnumberinItalian
SabrinaNoccetti 303
Numbermorphology inSpanishfirstlanguageacquisition
CarmenAguirre andVictoria Marrero 341
vi Contents
Relationsbetweenthedevelopmentofthecategoryofnominal
andverbalnumberintwoFrench-speakingchildren
MarianneKilani-Schoch 371
NounpluralsinearlyPalestinianArabic:Alongitudinal casestudy
DoritRavidandRolaFarah 411
SubjectIndex 433
List of abbreviations used in the present volume
1. Grammatical codes
1P 1st personplural FEM Feminine
1S 1st personsingular FILL Filler
2P 2nd personplural GEN Genitive
2S 2nd personsingular ILL Illative
3P 3rd personplural IMP Imperative
3S 3rd personsingular INANI Inanimate
ABESS/ABE Abessive INC Incompletive
ABL Ablative IND Indicative
ABS Absolutive INDEF Indefinite
ACC Accusative INESS/INE Inessive
ADESS/ADE Adessive INF Infinitive
ADJ Adjective INSTR Instrumental
ADV Adverb INSTRUC Instructive
ALL Allative IPFV Imperfective
ANI Animate LIAIS Liaison
AOR Aorist LOC Locative
ART Article MASC Masculine
ASS Assurative MOD Modal
AUX Auxiliary N Noun
CLFR Classifier NEG Negation/Negative
COLL Collective NEUT Neuter
COM Comitative NOM Nominative
COMP Completive NP Nounphrase
COP Copula NR Nominalizer
DAT Dative NUM Numeral
DC DeclensionClass OBL Oblique case
DEF Definite ONO Onomatopoeia
DEM Demonstrative OPT Optative
DET Determiner PARTIT Partitive
DIM Diminutive PASS Passive
DIST Distal PAST Pasttense
ELAT/ELA Elative PERS Person
ERG Ergative PFV Perfective
ESS Essive PL Plural
viii Listofabbreviationsusedinthepresentvolume
POSS Possessive SF Soundfeminines
POSTPOS Postposition SFP Soundfeminine
PREP Preposition/al plurals
PRES Presenttense SG Singular
PRO/PRON Pronoun SM Soundmasculines
PROG Progressive SUBJ Subjunctive
PROX Proximal TER/TERM Terminative
PTL Particle TNS Tense
Q Question particle TRANSL/TRL Translative
Q1 1st degreeofquantity TRANSNUM Transnumeral
Q2 2nd degreeofquantity U Umlaut
Q3 3rd degreeofquantity V Verb
REL Relational VOC Vocative
2. Otherabbreviations
ADS Adult-directedspeech GRK Greek
CDS Child-directedspeech IT Italian
CHI Child MLU Meanlengthofutterance
coll. Colloquial MOT Mother
CRO Croatian MSA ModernStandardArabic
CS Childspeech PA PalestinianArabic
EST Estonian PBF Percentageofbaseforms
FINN Finnish RUS Russian
Form. Formulaic SPAN Spanish
FR French TURK Turkish
GER German YUC YucatecMaya
3. Symbols
& Morphological fusion *0 Ungrammaticalomission
+ Compoundmarker %mor Morphology/gloss
- Morphemeboundary %eng English translation
> Commissionerror %sit Situationalcontext
0 Omission ofthefollowing
morpheme
Contributors
CarmenAguirre WolfgangU.Dressler
UniversidadComplutense, University ofVienna,
Fac.CienciasInformacio´n, DepartmentofLinguistics
Dpto.Lenguaespan˜olaIII AustrianAcademyofSciences,
AVDACOMpltrs/n DepartmentofLinguistics and
28040Madrid,Spain CommunicationResearch
[email protected] Kegelgasse27
A-1030Vienna,Austria
[email protected]
AyhanAksu-Koc¸
YeditepeUniversity,
DepartmentofPsychology,
RolaFarah
Kayıs¸dag˘ı,Istanbul
TelAvivUniversity,
Bog˘azic¸iUniversity,
SchoolofEducation,
DepartmentofPsychology
Dept.ofCommunicationsDisorders
Bebek,Istanbul
TelAviv69978, Israel
34342,Turkey
[email protected]
[email protected]
ReiliArgus
NataliaGagarina
Tallinn University,
ZASZentrumfu¨rAllgemeine
InstituteofEstonian Language
Sprachwissenschaft
andCulture
Schu¨tzenstr.18
Narvamnt2
D-10117Berlin
Tallinn, Estonia
[email protected]
[email protected]
AnastasiaChristofidou GordanaHrzˇica
AcademyofSciences,Athens University ofZagreb,
UniversityofAthens, LaboratoryforPsycholinguistic
PedagogicalDepartment Research
Solonos84 Zvonimirova8,
GR-10680Athens,Greece 10000Zagreb,Croatia
[email protected] [email protected]