: Ursula Stephany, Maria D. Voeikova
: Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110217117
: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]ISSN
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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.


Ursula Stephany, University of Cologne, Germany;Maria Voeikova, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
List of abbreviations used in the present volume7
Contributors9
Introduction13
Early nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and number27
Acquisition of case and plural in Finnish61
The acquisition of numeral classifiers and optional plural marking in Yucatec Maya103
The early development of case and number in Estonian123
The acquisition of case, number, and gender in Croatian165
Acquisition of case and number in Russian191
The emergence of nominal inflection in Greek229
The acquisition of number and case in Austrian German nouns277
The emergence of nominal number in Italian315
Number morphology in Spanish first language acquisition353
Relations between the development of the category of nominal and verbal number in two French-speaking children383
Noun plurals in early Palestinian Arabic: A longitudinal case study423
Backmatter445