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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).

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Author:   Ursula Stephany ,  Maria D. Voeikova
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Volume:   30
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.829kg
ISBN:  

9783110188400

ISBN 10:   3110188406
Pages:   459
Publication Date:   15 July 2009
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Ursula Stephany and Maria D. Voeikova Early development of number in the Spanish noun Carmen Aguirre and Victoria Marrero The early development of Case and Number in Estonian Reili Argus Early phases in the development of Greek noun inflection Anastasia Christofidou and Ursula Stephany Early development of number in the Italian noun Anna de Marco and Sabrina Noccetti Early development of noun inflection in Russian Natalia Gagarina and Maria D. Voeikova Early nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and number Nihan Ketrez and Ayhan Aksu-Koç The early development of noun inflection in Polish Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera Relations between noun and verb plural development in two French-speaking children Marianne Kilani-Schoch The acquisition of number and case in Austrian German nouns Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler The acquisition of case, number and gender in Croatian Melita Kovaceviḉ, Marijan Palmovi? and Gordana Hržica The acquisition of case and plural in Finnish Klaus Laalo The early development of number in Yucatec Maya Barbara Pfeiler The early development of number in Palestinian Arabic Dorit Ravid Personal pronouns and other forms of address in Lithuanian language acquisition Ineta Savickiene

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Ursula Stephany, University of Cologne, Germany; Maria Voeikova, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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