Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition

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.

• | Author: Dagmar Bittner
• | Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• | Publication Date: Jun 19, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 461 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 3110178230
• | ISBN-13: 9783110178234