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This book deals with the emergence of nominal morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective and is closely related to Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition (ed. by D. Bittner, W. U. Dressler, M. Kilani-Schoch) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the fundamental inflectionally expressed categories of the noun (number, case, gender) in one of the languages belonging to different morphological types (isolating, fusional-inflecting, agglutinating, root inflecting) and families (Germanic, Romance, Slavic/Baltic, Greek, Finnic, Turc, Semitic, Indian American). The analyses are based on parallel longitudinal observations of children in their second and early third year of life as well as their input. The focus lies on the transition from a pre-morphological to a proto-morphological stage in which grammatical oppositions and so-called "mini-paradigms" begin to develop. The point at which children start to discover the morphological structure of their language and the speed with which they develop inflectional distinctions of lexical items has been found to be dependent on the morphological richness of the input language on the paradigmatic as well as the syntagmatic axis of linguistic structure. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical frameworks (Natural Morphology, Usage-based theories).
Ursula Stephany, University of Cologne, Germany; Maria Voeikova, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
IntroductionUrsula Stephany and Maria D. VoeikovaEarly development of number in the Spanish nounCarmen Aguirre and Victoria MarreroThe early development of Case and Number in EstonianReili ArgusEarly phases in the development of Greek noun inflectionAnastasia Christofidou and Ursula StephanyEarly development of number in the Italian nounAnna de Marco and Sabrina NoccettiEarly development of noun inflection in RussianNatalia Gagarina and Maria D. VoeikovaEarly nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and numberNihan Ketrez and Ayhan Aksu-KoçThe early development of noun inflection in PolishDorota Kiebzak-ManderaRelations between noun and verb plural development in two French-speaking childrenMarianne Kilani-SchochThe acquisition of number and case in Austrian German nounsKatharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. DresslerThe acquisition of case, number and gender in CroatianMelita Kovaceviḉ, Marijan Palmovi? and Gordana HržicaThe acquisition of case and plural in FinnishKlaus LaaloThe early development of number in Yucatec MayaBarbara PfeilerThe early development of number in Palestinian ArabicDorit RavidPersonal pronouns and other forms of address in Lithuanian language acquisitionIneta Savickiene
