Verbal acquisition and morphological processing: a preliminary study
| Autor: | Cristina Name, Daniele de Souza Leite Molina |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Fórum Linguístico, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 293-307 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1415-8698 1984-8412 |
| DOI: | 10.5007/1984-8412.2014v11n3p293 |
| Popis: | We investigate the acquisition of a novel verb and the morphological processing of its inflectional variations by children acquiring BP. We consider the hypothesis that distributional cues guide the recognition of a novel word as a verb. Besides, the recurrence of verbal affixes leads to the verb’s internal segmentation into root and affixes. An experiment with the Split-Screen Preferential Looking Paradigm technique suggests two-year-old children seem to acquire the novel verb’s concept and treat its inflectional variations as words that share a common meaning. Similar experiments with the Picture Identification Task technique suggest that three-year-old children tend to map a concept into the novel verb, but seem to be confused when tested with its inflectional variations. Four-year-old children, however, seem to acquire the concept of the novel verb after a brief familiarization and to treat its inflectional variations as sharing a basic meaning. |
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