Acquisition of German Pluralization Rules in Monolingual and Multilingual Children

Autor/inn/en	Zaretsky, Eugen; Lange, Benjamin P.; Euler, Harald A.; Neumann, Katrin
Titel	Acquisition of German Pluralization Rules in Monolingual and Multilingual Children
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 3 (2013) 4, S.551-580 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2083-5205
Schlagwörter	German; Morphemes; Monolingualism; Multilingualism; Preschool Children; Immigrants; Language Tests; Comparative Analysis; Language Acquisition; Second Language Learning; Error Patterns; Native Speakers; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Deutscher; Morphem; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Language test; Sprachtest; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fehlertyp; Muttersprachler; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Deutschland
Abstract	Existing studies on plural acquisition in German have relied on small samples and thus hardly deliver generalizable and differentiated results. Here, overgeneralizations of certain plural allomorphs and other tendencies in the acquisition of German plural markers are described on the basis of test data from 7,394 3- to 5-year-old monolingual German and bi/multilingual immigrant children tested with a modified, validated version of the Marburger Sprachscreening (MSS) language test and 476 children tested with the SETK 3-5 language test. Classified correct and wrong answers to MSS and SETK 3-5 plural items were compared. The acquisition patterns of immigrants corresponded to those of younger German children. Both monolingual German and immigrant children demonstrated generally the same universal frequency and phonetically/phonologically based error patterns, irrespective of their linguistic background, but with different tendencies such as overgeneralization of "-s" by German children only. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Adam Mickiewicz University Department of English Studies. Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Ul. Nowy Swiat 28-30, 62-800 Kailsz, Poland. e-mail: ssllt@amu.edu.pll; Web site: http://ssllt.amu.edu.pl/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01