Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition

Dagmar Bittner

ISBN 10: 3110178230 / ISBN 13: 9783110178234

Published by De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Jun 2003, 2003

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Neuware -Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 464 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition
• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Jun 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110178230
• ISBN 13: 9783110178234
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 30D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 839 grams

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Synopsis

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.