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Books: Language Acquisition/Morphology: Voeikova, Dressler (Eds)
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Lueders,
Pre- and Protomorphology: Voeikova, Dressler (Eds)
Message 1: Pre- and Protomorphology: Voeikova, Dressler (Eds)
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Date: 17-May-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Pre- and Protomorphology: Voeikova, Dressler (Eds)
Title: Pre- and Protomorphology
Subtitle: Early Phases of Morphological Development in Nouns and Verbs
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 29
Published: 2006
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom.at
Editor: Maria D. Voeikova
Editor: Wolfgang U. Dressler, Vienna University
Paperback: ISBN: 3895864684 Pages: 200 Price: Europe EURO 83
Abstract:
How can we explain that young children appear to acquire very different
morphological systems in similar ways? What are the similarities in
acquisition across the very different language systems that they learn? Are
also different parts of morphology, such as inflection and derivation
acquired in similar ways? Are there differences in nominal vs. verbal
morphology?
In providing answers to such basic questions this volume presents the
intermediate results of the international "Crosslinguistic Project on Pre-
and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition" co-ordinated by Wolfgang U.
Dressler in behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Premorphology
refers to the phase when small children use only isolated rote-learnt
morphological forms and onomatopoetic and other extragrammatical
morphology-like operations. In the protomorphological phase children detect
morphology and start to actively compose and decompose words. The aim of
this project is to compare the acquisition of morphology in up to 20
languages by children from about 1;2 through at least 3;0 years of age.
The book includes several introductory chapters written by the project
co-ordinators on the base of the written reports of participants and
several studies on the acquisition of noun and verb morphology in the
transitory phase from pre- to protomorphology and in the protomorphological
phase in nine languages (Croatian, Finnish, French, German, Italian,
Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, and Yucatec Maya). Whereas the introductory
chapters focus on crosslinguistic comparison, the other authors describe
children's acquisition of single languages in detail. Both inflectional and
derivational morphology are investigated in nouns, including such topics as
compounding, diminutive formation, case and number distinctions. Verbs are
described from the point of view of inflectional morphology and agreement.
Table of contents:
Maria Voeikova (Saint Petersburg, Vienna) & Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienna):
Introduction
Ursula Stephany (Cologne): Early development of grammatical number - a
typological perspective
Maria Voeikova (Saint Petersburg, Vienna): The acquisition of case in
typologically different languages
Marianne Kilani-Schoch (Lausanne) & Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienna): The
emergence of inflectional paradigms in two French corpora: an illustration
of general problems of pre- and protomorphology
Sabine Klampfer & Katharina Korecky-Kröll (Vienna): Nouns and verbs at the
transition from pre- to protomorphology: a longitudinal case study on
Austrian German
Barbara Pfeiler (Merida): Noun and verb acquisition in Yucatec Maya.
Klaus Laalo (Tampere): Acquisition of case in Finnish: a preliminary
overview...
Ineta Savickiene (Kaunas): The emergence of case distinctions in Lithuanian
Maria Voeikova (Saint Petersburg, Vienna) & Natalia Gagarina (Berlin):
Early syntax, first lexicon and the acquisition of case forms by two
Russian children
Anna de Marco (Cosenza): The development of diminutives in Italian: input
and acquisition
Victoria Marrero (Madrid), María José Albalá (Madrid) & Ignacio Moreno
(Málaga): Use of diminutives by children and adults in Spanish. A
preliminary analysis
Carmen Aguirre (Vienna): The acquisition of tense and aspect morphology: a
key for semantic interpretation
Zrinka Jelaska, Melita Kovacevic & Maja Andel (Zagreb): Morphology and
semantics - the basis of Croatian case
Authors' page
Linguistic Field(s):
Language Acquisition
Morphology
Subject Language(s): Finnish (fin)
French (fra)
German, Standard (deu)
Italian (ita)
Itza' (itz)
Lithuanian (lit)
Russian (rus)
Spanish (spa)
Croatian (hrv)
Written In: English (eng )
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