Interfaces between linguistic systems
Evidence from Child Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10294992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lyle Lustigman (0000-0002-7184-3094, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2016-0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2547871070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
Interfaces between grammatical domains have been considered from various perspectives in child language research and in general linguistics. The study aims to provide evidence for interfaces in acquisition of early clause-structure, based on longitudinal data from three Hebrew-acquiring toddlers. Two facets of their early speech output were examined: Usage productivity in verb-inflection, identified by a criterion of contextual appropriateness; and structural transparency/opacity of children’s speech output, with transparent forms being unambiguous in relation to their grammatical targets. These factors yielded two distinct developmental periods for the three children: I – from the onset of verb usage to productive verb inflection, and II – from productive verb inflection to disappearance of structural opacity. Period II displays a puzzling mixture of both transparent and opaque usages, not only in verb inflection, but also in use of prepositions marking objects and adverbs. These puzzles are resolved by the significant correlations that emerged between apparently unrelated linguistic systems: (1) opaque verb-forms occur mainly together with object/adverbs, and (2) transparent prepositions occur mainly in combination with transparent verbs. These unexpected convergences between different linguistic systems are discussed as underlining the role of structural transparency/opacity and as shedding new light on between-domain interfaces in language acquisition
Inflection · Linguistics · Opacity · Physics · Transparency (behavior) · Verb · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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The universal density of measurement
Non-Finiteness in Early Hebrew Verbs
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Rules, rote, and analogy in morphological formations by Hungarian children
The early acquisition of Spanish verbal morphology
Early development of nouns and verbs in French
The emergence of grammar
Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children
Prosodically-conditioned variability in children's production of French determiners
Continuity in lexical and morphological development
The changing status of ‘filler syllables’ on the way to grammatical morphemes
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Sampling children's spontaneous speech
Early syntactic creativity
Developing structural specification
The development of articles in children’s early Spanish
German-speaking children’s productivity with syntactic constructions and case morphology
Continuity in lexical and morphological development in Icelandic and English-speaking 2-year-olds
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Foot and word in prosodic morphology
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The Emergence of Linguistic Person in Spanish-Speaking Children
The Lexicon-Syntax Parameter
Mapping thematic roles onto syntactic functions
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False Starts and Filler Syllables
From Babbling to Speech
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |