Verb morphology in Turkish-speaking children with and without DLD: the role of morphophonology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Selçuk Güven ◽  
Laurence B. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Verb Morphology

scholarly journals “Les copains *dit au revoir”: On Subject–Verb Agreement in L2 French and Cross-Linguistic Influence

Languages ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Malin Ågren ◽  
Marie-Eve Michot ◽  
Cyrille Granget ◽  
Sonia Gerolimich ◽  
Pascale Hadermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Verb Agreement ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
L2 Development

This study focuses on the production of subject–verb (SV) agreement in number in L2 French and investigates the role of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in this particular morphosyntactic domain. CLI is a well-known phenomenon in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research but it has rarely been investigated systematically in relation to SV agreement in French. The participants of the study are 114 learners with Italian, German, Dutch and Swedish as L1. The source languages are all inflectional languages but they vary in terms of morphological richness in the verb paradigm, ranging from very poor (Swedish) to very rich (Italian). The participants performed an oral narrative task contrasting singular and plural contexts of SV agreement. Results indicate a significant difference between L1 groups in terms of correct SV agreement but they also show that the overall presence of rich verb morphology in the L1 does not, on its own, result in a more correct SV agreement. It is when comparing learners at two different proficiency levels that we observe differences in the rate of L2 development, which may be explained as an effect of CLI. Overall, results indicate a complex interplay of different factors, where the role of CLI must be further investigated in future studies in relation to L2 French.

scholarly journals Sound Change and Grammaticalization in Japanese Verb Morphology

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Natasha Warner
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
General Session ◽  
Verb Morphology

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)

scholarly journals Early child L2 acquisition: Age or input effects? Neither, or both?

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 608-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHARON UNSWORTH
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Theoretical Significance ◽  
Verb Placement ◽  
English Speaking

AbstractThis paper explores whether there is evidence for age and/or input effects in child L2 acquisition across three different linguistic domains, namely morphosyntax, vocabulary, and syntax–semantics. More specifically, it compares data from English-speaking children whose age of onset to L2 Dutch was between one and three years with data from children whose age of onset was between four and seven years in their acquisition of verb morphology, verb placement, vocabulary, and direct object scrambling. The main findings were that there were no significant differences between the two groups in any of these areas and, with the exception of scrambling, current amount of exposure was the only factor significantly related to children's scores. The paper discusses the theoretical significance of these findings with respect to the role of input in the language acquisition process and the claim that there is a critical period ending within (early) childhood.

Morphomic patterns, suppletion, and the Romance morphological landscape

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Maiden
Keyword(s):  
Romance Languages ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
History Of

This chapter uses especially cases of suppletion in the history of Romance languages to illustrate the role of morphomic patterns in diachrony. It also places Romance verb morphology in the wider context of Romance inflexional morphology, including those of the noun and of the adjective. It observes that suppletion practically never assumes anything but a morphomic distribution and is practically limited to the verb. Comparison is made with some Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance varieties where suppletion is indeed (occasionally) found in the noun and adjective (and is usually not morphomic). The evidence suggests that speakers, faced with different ways of expressing identical lexical meaning, exploit whatever patterns of root allomorphy happen to be already available in the language. In the Romance verb these are only morphomic; in the noun and adjective such patterns are scarcely found at all, but where they are they tend to be aligned with number.

scholarly journals The impact of number mismatch and passives on the real-time processing of relative clauses

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 658-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLA CONTEMORI ◽  
THEODOROS MARINIS
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Relative Clauses ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Real Time Processing ◽  
Listening Task ◽  
Input Strings ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTLanguage processing plays a crucial role in language development, providing the ability to assign structural representations to input strings (e.g., Fodor, 1998). In this paper we aim at contributing to the study of children's processing routines, examining the operations underlying the auditory processing of relative clauses in children compared to adults. English-speaking children (6;0–8;11) and adults participated in the study, which employed a self-paced listening task with a final comprehension question. The aim was to determine (i) the role of number agreement in object relative clauses in which the subject and object NPs differ in terms of number properties, and (ii) the role of verb morphology (active vs. passive) in subject relative clauses. Even though children's off-line accuracy was not always comparable to that of adults, analyses of reaction times results support the view that children have the same structural processing reflexes observed in adults.

On the role of pragmatics in child-directed speech for the acquisition of verb morphology

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Kilani-Schoch ◽  
Ingrida Balčiunienė ◽  
Katharina Korecky-Kröll ◽  
Sabine Laaha ◽  
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Keyword(s):  
Verb Morphology

scholarly journals Early verb development in one German-speaking child

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Dagmar Bittner
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Stage ◽  
Rote Learning ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
German Child ◽  
German Speaking

This paper deals with the emergence of verb morphology in one German child up to the time mini-paradigms occur in the data. I will focus on the role of protomorphology as a transitional stage between rote learning and the productive use of morphological distinctions.  

Hebrew verbal passives in Later Language Development: the interface of register and verb morphology

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1309-1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
DORIT RAVID ◽  
LIZZY VERED
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
Verb Tense

AbstractThe current study examined the production of Hebrew verbal passives across adolescence as mediated by linguistic register and verb morphology. Participants aged eight to sixteen years and a group of adults were asked to change written active-voice sentences into corresponding passive-voice forms, divided by verb register (neutral and high),binyanpattern (Qal / Nif'al, Hif'il / Huf'al, andPi'el / Pu'al), and verb tense (past and future tense). Results showed that Hebrew passive morphology is a very late acquisition, almost a decade later than in other languages, that passivizing neutral-register verbs was less challenging than high-register verbs, and that past tense verbs were easier to passivize than future tense verbs. An order of acquisition was determined among the threebinyanpairs. The paper provides an account of these findings grounded in the event-telling role of Hebrew passives in discourse and the spurt of abstract, lexically specific vocabulary in Later Language Development.

scholarly journals Input Issues in the Development of L2 French Morphosyntax

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Anita Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Dominant Pattern ◽  
Irregular Verbs

The aim of this article is to discuss the role of input characteristics in the development of French verb morphology. From a usage-based perspective, several cognitive and linguistic factors contribute to the ease or difficulty of processing input in L2 acquisition. This article concentrates on frequency, salience, and form–function association, factors that might influence what aspects of input are available to the learners’ attention. A presentation of French verb morphology from this perspective shows how these factors can contribute to the use of the regular -er verb paradigm as a default. A review of empirical studies confirms the influence of input characteristics. The results suggest that the dominant pattern of regular verbs and the scarcity of salient clues from irregular verbs contribute to the specificity of L2 French development. The conclusion addresses the question of enriching L2 classroom input with irregular verbs. Such an input could facilitate the perception of form–function association, and thus, contribute to a more efficient development of French verb morphology. The article concludes by suggesting other ways of studying the influence of input as well as avenues for future research.

Sound Change and Grammaticalization in Japanese Verb Morphology

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Warner
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
General Session ◽  
Verb Morphology

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)

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