The Development of Regular and Irregular Verb Inflection in Spanish Child Language

Autor/inn/en	Clahsen, Harald; Aveledo, Fraibet; Roca, Iggy
Titel	The Development of Regular and Irregular Verb Inflection in Spanish Child Language
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 29 (2002) 3, S.591-622 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000902005172
Schlagwörter	Speech; Verbs; Child Language; Spanish Speaking; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Morphology (Languages); Longitudinal Studies; Case Studies; Error Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speaking; Sprechen; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Morphology; Morphologie; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fehlertyp
Abstract	We present morphological analyses of verb inflections produced by 15 Spanish-speaking children (age range: 1;7 to 4;7) taken from longitudinal and cross-sectional samples of spontaneous speech and narratives. Our main observation is the existence of a dissociation between regular and irregular processes in the distribution of errors: regular suffixes and unmarked (non-alternating) stems are over-extended to irregulars in children's inflection errors, but not "vice versa". We also found that overregularization errors at all ages are only a small minority of the children's irregular verbs, that the period of overregularization is preceded by a stage without errors, and that the onset of overregularizations is connected to the emergence of obligatory finiteness markings. These findings are explained in terms of the dual-mechanism model of inflection. [This research was supported by the German Science Foundation and the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation.] (Author).
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