Chapter 21. Trajectory of children’s verb formation in Hebrew as a heritage language
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Dorit Kaufman
Abstract
The trajectory of language shift and attrition in the Israeli immigrant community in the United States represents a complex interaction between Hebrew, a revitalized language of heritage, and English, a language that is highly pervasive in the Israeli urban landscape. The language of the children whose Hebrew is still developing at the onset of contact with English attests to morphological interaction and innovative lexical constructions that are unprecedented in monolingual language development for Hebrew or English. Analysis of longitudinal, narrative, and innovative verb formation data in children’s Hebrew language oral production confirms the vulnerability of derivational morphology and verb formation in Hebrew and the increasing diffusion of English lexical formation devices as proficiency in Hebrew declines.
Abstract
The trajectory of language shift and attrition in the Israeli immigrant community in the United States represents a complex interaction between Hebrew, a revitalized language of heritage, and English, a language that is highly pervasive in the Israeli urban landscape. The language of the children whose Hebrew is still developing at the onset of contact with English attests to morphological interaction and innovative lexical constructions that are unprecedented in monolingual language development for Hebrew or English. Analysis of longitudinal, narrative, and innovative verb formation data in children’s Hebrew language oral production confirms the vulnerability of derivational morphology and verb formation in Hebrew and the increasing diffusion of English lexical formation devices as proficiency in Hebrew declines.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. All things morphology 1
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Part I. Paradigms
- Chapter 2. Making sense of morphology 17
- Chapter 3. A formal restriction on gender resolution 41
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Part II. Words, stems, and affixes
- Chapter 4. Signs and words 57
- Chapter 5. Leaving the stem by itself 81
- Chapter 6. Stem constancy under the microscope 99
- Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight 117
- Chapter 8. Word formation in the brain 127
- Chapter 9. The suffixing preference 147
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Part III. Competition, inheritance, and defaults
- Chapter 10. Feature-based competition 171
- Chapter 11. Competition in comparatives 199
- Chapter 12. Multi-layered default in Ripano 215
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Part IV. Morphomes
- Chapter 13. Morphomes all the way down! 239
- Chapter 14. Conditional exponence 255
- Chapter 15. My favorite morphome 279
- Chapter 16. In further pursuit of the adjective 289
- Chapter 17. Two-suffix combinations in native and non-native English 305
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Part V. Interfaces
- Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America 327
- Chapter 19. Realization Optimality Theory 349
- Chapter 20. A-prefixing in the ex-slave narratives 377
- Chapter 21. Trajectory of children’s verb formation in Hebrew as a heritage language 395
- Chapter 22. A primer for linguists on the reading wars 415
- Index of languages 431
- Index of names 433
- Index of terms 435
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. All things morphology 1
-
Part I. Paradigms
- Chapter 2. Making sense of morphology 17
- Chapter 3. A formal restriction on gender resolution 41
-
Part II. Words, stems, and affixes
- Chapter 4. Signs and words 57
- Chapter 5. Leaving the stem by itself 81
- Chapter 6. Stem constancy under the microscope 99
- Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight 117
- Chapter 8. Word formation in the brain 127
- Chapter 9. The suffixing preference 147
-
Part III. Competition, inheritance, and defaults
- Chapter 10. Feature-based competition 171
- Chapter 11. Competition in comparatives 199
- Chapter 12. Multi-layered default in Ripano 215
-
Part IV. Morphomes
- Chapter 13. Morphomes all the way down! 239
- Chapter 14. Conditional exponence 255
- Chapter 15. My favorite morphome 279
- Chapter 16. In further pursuit of the adjective 289
- Chapter 17. Two-suffix combinations in native and non-native English 305
-
Part V. Interfaces
- Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America 327
- Chapter 19. Realization Optimality Theory 349
- Chapter 20. A-prefixing in the ex-slave narratives 377
- Chapter 21. Trajectory of children’s verb formation in Hebrew as a heritage language 395
- Chapter 22. A primer for linguists on the reading wars 415
- Index of languages 431
- Index of names 433
- Index of terms 435