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Contributors | November 10, 2009

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

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Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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    Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder

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Studies on Language Acquisition [Sola] #30: Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

by Ursula (edt) Stephany

Studies on Language Acquisition [Sola] #30: Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective Cover

ISBN13: 9783110188400
ISBN10: 3110188406
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Synopsis:

This book focuses on the acquisition of the grammar of the noun in children's second and third years of life. The early development of fundamental linguistic distinctions in the universal category of the noun, namely singular vs. plural and nominative vs. accusative as well as other cases, is studied in monolingual children acquiring fourteen languages belonging to eight different language families found within and outside Europe: Germanic, Romance, Slavic/Baltic, Greek, Finnic, Turc, Semitic, and Indian American. One of the main findings of this cross-linguistic study is that children are highly sensitive to the morphological richness of their mother tongue even during their "proto-morphological" stage of development.

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The crosslinguistic studies of the early developmental stages of number, case, and gender in twelve typologically different languages with eight genetic affiliations follow a functional-constructivist approach. Some issues addressed are mean size of paradigms, percentage of base forms, and productivity. One of the main findings is that the typological characteristics of the language acquired influence the process of inflectional development.
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ISBN:
9783110188400
Subtitle:
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Author:
Stephany, Ursula (edt)
Editor:
Stephany, Ursula
Author:
Stephany, Ursula
Author:
Voeikova, Maria
Publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Subject:
Linguistics
Copyright:
2009
Series:
Studies on Language Acquisition [Sola]
Series Volume:
30
Publication Date:
July 2009
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
448
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