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Acquisition of Malayalam Inflections: Complexity of Morphosyntactic Rules and Its Impact on Developing Grammars
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Krishnan, Gayathri G.; Raghunathan, Arathi; Sarma, Vaijayanthi M. – First Language, 2023
In this article, we present an analysis of the complexity of grammatical constraints and their impact on early language acquisition of inflectional morphemes in Malayalam. We use the natural speech production data of two monolingual children acquiring Malayalam between the ages 1;9-2;10 and 2;3-3;0 and three bilingual children acquiring…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grammar, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
How Children Constrain Their Argument Structure Constructions.
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Brooks, Patricia J.; Tomasello, Michael – Language, 1999
Tested two hypotheses about how English-speaking children learn to avoid making argument structure errors such as "don't giggle me." Ninety-six children were introduced to two nonce verbs, one as a transitive verb and one as an intransitive verb. Found empirical support for the constraining role of verb classes and preemption, but only for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning, Sentence Structure
What Bilingual Toddlers Hear and Say: Language Input and Word Combinations.
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Patterson, Janet L. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 1999
A study involving 102 toddlers with exposure to Spanish and English found children whose parents said they used only one language with the child did not differ from children whose parents said they used both languages in reported use of word combinations and use of mixed utterances. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Family Environment, Interference (Language)