Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition
：A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
( Studies on Language Acquisition SOLA )
Publication subTitle ：A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Publication series ：Studies on Language Acquisition SOLA
Author： Dagmar Bittner Wolfgang U. Dressler Marianne Kilani-Schoch
Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton
Publication year： 2003
E-ISBN: 9783110899832
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110178234
Subject： H0-05 Language and other subjects the relationship
Language： ENG
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Description
The volume deals with the emergence of verb morphology in children during their second and early third year of life from a cross-linguistic perspective. It covers 15 contributions - each analyzing one single language - based on parallel longitudinal investigations of children with parallel methodology and macrostructure in representation. The main question addressed is: How do children detect morphology and construct first subsystems of verbal inflection? The focus lies on the transition from a premorphological phase to a protomorphological phase. The main proposal consists in the concept of miniparadigms and of their relation to morpho-syntactic developments in early first language acquisition.
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