Acquisition of Morphological Variation
An Elicitation Experiment on Children’s Production of Parallel Forms in Croatian and Estonian
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 20368641 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Virve‐anneli Vihman (0000-0002-0874-1730, University of Tartu, autor correspondente), Gordana Hržica (0000-0001-6067-9148, University of Zagreb), Mari Aigro (0000-0003-4170-6838, University of Tartu), Sara Košutar (0000-0002-8882-9600, UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Tomislava Bošnjak Botica (0000-0003-1476-5680, Institute for the Croatian Language) |
| Ano | 2026 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 539-574 |
| Data de publicação | 2026-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000925000017 |
| PMID | 39980432 |
| OpenAlex | W4407816985 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 57 |
Children’s acquisition of variation in the target language depends on a number of factors not yet well understood. This study probes the acquisition of morphological variation in two unrelated languages, Croatian (Slavic) and Estonian (Finnic), focussing on parallel forms of a lexeme expressing a single grammatical category (a phenomenon known as morphological overabundance). We conducted a cross-linguistic elicitation experiment with 140 monolingual, typically developing children aged 3;0 to 6;11 (80 learning Croatian, 60 Estonian). We elicited genitive plural forms in Croatian and partitive plural in Estonian, with lexemes which either are invariant or allow more than one form. Children in both languages were less accurate with lexemes with parallel forms, indicating that the morphological variation hindered acquisition. Pattern type frequency was found to affect accuracy in both languages. Children’s choice between two parallel forms was unaffected by age, but significant language-specific differences emerged
Cognition · Croatian · Estonian · Indo-European languages · Language acquisition · Lexeme · Linguistics · Morpheme · Physics · Plural · Psycholinguistics · Slavic languages · Communication · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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