Markedness, input frequency, and the acquisition of inflection
Evidence from Basque/Spanish bilingual children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5849939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Austin (0000-0001-5193-4792, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-283 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Bilingualism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-0069 • E-ISSN: 1756-6878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367006912438991 |
| OpenAlex | W2054832721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
Crosslinguistically, children begin producing the person and number features of personal pronouns in a similar order. This article explored whether the same is true of verbal agreement morphology and evaluated three potential explanatory hypotheses which could account for a universal sequence of the development of phi features: the existence of an innate feature geometry, statistical properties in the input, and the organization of verbal paradigms. I examined these hypotheses in light of data from 20 bilingual children aged 2;00-3;06 years acquiring Basque and Spanish as well as child-directed speech from four adult speakers of Basque and Spanish. The results did not fit the predictions of the feature-geometric analysis nor the frequency-driven approach. However, there is evidence of paradigm building from the children's early errors in the production of finite verbs
Feature (linguistics · Inflection · Markedness · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Reading and Literacy Development
The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
The item-based nature of children’s early syntactic development
Do young children have adult syntactic competence?
Morphology
The early acquisition of Spanish verbal morphology
The development of regular and irregular verb inflection in Spanish child language
Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development
Subject–verb agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
The acquisition of inflections in Portuguese
The acquisition of Italian morphology
Acquiring basic word order
Basque Phonology
Parameters in the grammar of Basque
A Grammar of Basque
Rich inflection and the production of finite verbs in child language
Essays on Theory and Method
Structuring the bundle
Person and Number in Pronouns
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |