LINGUIST List 21.2656

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Books: Language Acquisition/Morphology: Polišenská

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        1.    Mariëtte Bonenkamp, Dutch Children's Acquisition of Verbal and Adjectival Inflection: Polišenská
Message 1: Dutch Children's Acquisition of Verbal and Adjectival Inflection: Polišenská
Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl>
Subject: Dutch Children's Acquisition of Verbal and Adjectival Inflection: Polišenská
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Title: Dutch Children's Acquisition of Verbal and Adjectival Inflection Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series Published: 2010 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Daniela Polišenská Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930195 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 21.78
Abstract:

This book presents a study of the acquisition of verbal and adjectivalagreementinflection in typically developing, monolingual Dutch children. The authorshows that Dutch children correctly inflect verbs for person and numberwith both existing and non-existing verbs from the age of three onward. Theresults of a preferential listening experiment reveal that perceptualsensitivity precedes production: Infants are able to discriminate betweencorrect and incorrect number agreement from the age of 18 months. Dutchchildren acquire adjectival inflection as early as verbal inflection, eventhough adjectival inflection is more complex, comprising gender, number anddefiniteness. Analyses of children's performance with adjectival inflectionpoint to substantial asymmetries between the development of grammaticalknowledge, on the one hand, and lexical knowledge, on the other. Whilechildren acquire grammatical rules early, it takes them much longer tolearn the relevant lexical properties of nouns (e.g. grammatical gender).It is argued that salience factors related to form, function, and frequencyplay a role in the development of inflectional morphemes. Methodologically,this study stresses the importance of meticulous testing and fine-grainedanalyses. The outcomes of the experiments are a welcome and valuablecomplement to existing spontaneous speech data. The book is of interest toscholars who work in the field of language acquisition, developmentalpsychology, as well as to linguists studying inflectional morphology.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Morphology                             Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
Written In: English (eng )

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