Spanish-Speaking Children's Production of Number Morphology

Autor/inn/en	Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Abreu-Mendoza, Roberto A.; Aguado-Servín, Oscar A.
Titel	Spanish-Speaking Children's Production of Number Morphology
Quelle	In: First Language, 34 (2014) 4, S.372-384 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723714544411
Schlagwörter	Spanish Speaking; Morphology (Languages); Native Language; Familiarity; Syllables; Toddlers; Language Acquisition; Task Analysis; Oral Language; Morphemes; Nouns; Phrase Structure; Phonology; Language Research; Coding; Child Care Centers; Foreign Countries; Visual Stimuli; Mexico (Mexico City) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Silbe; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Aufgabenanalyse; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Morphem; Phrasenstruktur; Fonologie; Sprachforschung; Codierung; Programmierung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland
Abstract	Infants across cultures need to identify the characteristics of their native languages in order to become competent speakers. The means by which Spanish-speaking children learn to produce number-gender linguistic markers has not been sufficiently investigated. Thirty-eight three-year-olds were tested in Berko-like production tasks, in which they were asked to pluralize or singularize familiar and novel words, with controls for allomorph, number of syllables, and word familiarity. Children found it easier to pluralize and singularize words with the allomorph /-s/ than those requiring /-es/, independent of their familiarity or syllable length. Children also produced a wide variety of noun phrases in which they tended to mark number information in more than one element. These data suggest that Spanish-speaking children's inflectional abilities are mainly influenced by phonological features such as word-endings and not, as previously reported, by the familiarity of the word or syllable length. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01