Crosslinguistic evidence for the diminutive advantage
Gender agreement in Russian and Serbian children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | NADA šEVA (0000-0002-6449-8616, University of Stirling), Vera Kempe (0000-0001-5649-4351, University of Stirling), Patricia J Brooks (0000-0001-8030-8811, The Graduate Center, CUNY), NATALIJA MIRONOVA (Moscow State University), ANGELINA PERSHUKOVA (Moscow State University), Olga Fedorova (0000-0002-5034-3859, Moscow State University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-131 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000906007720 |
| PMID | 17340940 |
| OpenAlex | W2138307922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 11 |
Our previous research showed that Russian children commit fewer gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns than with their simplex counterparts. Experiment 1 replicates this finding with Russian children ( N =24, mean 3;7, range 2;10–4;6). Gender agreement was recorded from adjective usage as children described animal pictures given just their names, varying in derivational status (diminutive/simplex), novelty, and gender. Experiment 2 extends the gender-agreement elicitation methodology developed for Russian to Serbian, a language with similar morphosyntactic structure but considerably fewer diminutives in child-directed speech. Serbian children ( N =22, mean age 3;8, range 3;0–4;1), exhibited an advantage for diminutive nouns of almost the same magnitude as the Russian children. The fact that the diminutive advantage was found in a language with a low frequency of diminutives in the input suggests that morphophonological homogeneity of word clusters and membership in dense neighbourhoods are important factors that contribute to the reduction of inflectional errors during language development
Adjective · Agreement · Diminutive · Grammatical Gender · Linguistics · Noun · Novelty · Serbian · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |