Processing of noun plural marking in German-speaking children
An eye-tracking study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bénédicte Grandon (0000-0003-4565-4676, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, corresponding author), Marcel Schlechtweg (0000-0001-5312-4929, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), Esther Ruigendijk (0000-0003-1211-9407, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1450-1477 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| 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/s0305000923000521 |
| PMID | 37718673 |
| OpenAlex | W4386818213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
The ability to process plural marking of nouns is acquired early: at a very young age, children are able to understand if a noun represents one item or more than one. However, little is known about how the segmental characteristics of plural marking are used in this process. Using eye-tracking, we aim at understanding how five to twelve-year old children use the phonetic, phonological, and morphological information available to process noun plural marking in German (i.e., a very complex system) compared to adults. We expected differences with stem vowels, stem-final consonants or different suffixes, alone or in combination, reflecting different processing of their segmental information. Our results show that for plural processing: 1) a suffix is the most helpful cue, an umlaut the least helpful, and voicing does not play a role; 2) one cue can be sufficient and 3) school-age children have not reached adult-like processing of plural marking
German · Inflection · Linguistics · Morpheme · Noun · Plural · Suffix · Voice · Language Development and Disorders · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |