The perfective past tense in Greek child language
| Autor: | Stavroula Stavrakaki, Harald Clahsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Adult
Male Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Affix Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verb Language and Linguistics Past tense Young Adult Morpheme Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Speech Child General Psychology media_common Analysis of Variance Grammar Linguistics Language acquisition Grammatical tense Language development Child Preschool Female Psychology Child Language |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language. 36:113-142 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 0305-0009 |
| Popis: | This study examines the perfective past tense of Greek in an elicited production and an acceptability judgment task testing 35 adult native speakers and 154 children in six age groups (age range: 3 ; 5 to 8 ; 5) on both existing and novel verb stimuli. We found a striking contrast between sigmatic and non-sigmatic perfective past tense forms. Sigmatic forms (which have a segmentable perfective affix (-s-) in Greek) were widely generalized to different kinds of novel verbs in both children and adults and were overgeneralized to existing non-sigmatic verbs in children's productions. By contrast, non-sigmatic forms were only extended to novel verbs that were similar to existing non-sigmatic verbs, and overapplications of non-sigmatic forms to existing sigmatic verbs were extremely rare. We argue that these findings are consistent with dual-mechanism accounts of morphology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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