Acquisition of Inflectional Marking: A Case Study of Finnish
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Nordic Journal of Linguistics
- Vol. 10 (1) , 59-89
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500001578
Abstract
Longitudinal acquisition studies of inflectional paradigms of Finish have shown, for example, that certain type of stem confusions predominate in the errors during the first few years of language acquisition. The present study focused upon the development of the (possible) base forms in verbs and nominals (i.e. nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns) of Finnish in the speech of the authors' son between ages 1.5 and 5.6. Various factors are discussed that appear to account for most of the errors in a satisfactory manner, e.g., frequency of a related form in caretaker speech, the degree of isomorphy (or transparency) found in the inflection as well as the role of the self-directed speech of the child.Keywords
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