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Noun and Verb categories in acquisition

Evidence from fillers and inflectional morphology in French-acquiring children
  • Edy Veneziano
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Lexical Polycategoriality
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Abstract

Our analyses suggest that early fillers are premorphological. They help children realize phonoprosodic features, and reflect the distributional regularities of child-directed speech, but are not used to differentiate nouns from verbs, a differentiation that starts to show up a few months after their appearance. The analysis of verbal inflectional morphology confirms these results, showing that, at first, verbs are not treated differently from nouns. The results of a comprehension task administered longitudinally to one of the children are also reported. In this task the child has to attribute an action or object meaning to homophonous or nonce words on the sole basis of the grammatical context in which they occur. The more mature understanding of the distinction between noun and verb frames required by the comprehension task sheds further light on the early psychological reality of Nouns and Verbs for young children.

Abstract

Our analyses suggest that early fillers are premorphological. They help children realize phonoprosodic features, and reflect the distributional regularities of child-directed speech, but are not used to differentiate nouns from verbs, a differentiation that starts to show up a few months after their appearance. The analysis of verbal inflectional morphology confirms these results, showing that, at first, verbs are not treated differently from nouns. The results of a comprehension task administered longitudinally to one of the children are also reported. In this task the child has to attribute an action or object meaning to homophonous or nonce words on the sole basis of the grammatical context in which they occur. The more mature understanding of the distinction between noun and verb frames required by the comprehension task sheds further light on the early psychological reality of Nouns and Verbs for young children.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. List of contributors xi
  5. Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches 1
  6. Part I. Polycategoriality
  7. The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka 35
  8. Derivationally based homophony in French 59
  9. Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon 79
  10. Part II. Polycategoriality across Amerindian languages
  11. Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan languages 101
  12. Polycategoriality and zero derivation 155
  13. What determines constraints on the relationships between roots and lexical categories? 175
  14. Part III. Polycategoriality across Austronesian and Australian languages
  15. Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages 207
  16. Two classes of verbs in Northern Australian languages 243
  17. Part IV. Linguistic analysis in the light of acquisition data
  18. The ontology of roots and the emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikuro 275
  19. Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru 307
  20. Word class distinctiveness versus polycategoriality in Modern Hebrew 343
  21. Part V. Lexical categories and polycategoriality in acquisition
  22. Noun and Verb categories in acquisition 381
  23. Semantic discrimination of Noun/Verb categories in French children aged 1;6 to 2;11 413
  24. The acquisition of action nouns in Yucatec Maya 443
  25. Author index 467
  26. Language index 473
  27. Subject index 475
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.182.13ven

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. List of contributors xi
  5. Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches 1
  6. Part I. Polycategoriality
  7. The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka 35
  8. Derivationally based homophony in French 59
  9. Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon 79
  10. Part II. Polycategoriality across Amerindian languages
  11. Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan languages 101
  12. Polycategoriality and zero derivation 155
  13. What determines constraints on the relationships between roots and lexical categories? 175
  14. Part III. Polycategoriality across Austronesian and Australian languages
  15. Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages 207
  16. Two classes of verbs in Northern Australian languages 243
  17. Part IV. Linguistic analysis in the light of acquisition data
  18. The ontology of roots and the emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikuro 275
  19. Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru 307
  20. Word class distinctiveness versus polycategoriality in Modern Hebrew 343
  21. Part V. Lexical categories and polycategoriality in acquisition
  22. Noun and Verb categories in acquisition 381
  23. Semantic discrimination of Noun/Verb categories in French children aged 1;6 to 2;11 413
  24. The acquisition of action nouns in Yucatec Maya 443
  25. Author index 467
  26. Language index 473
  27. Subject index 475
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