| Автор | LAAHA, SABINE |
| Автор | RAVID, DORIT |
| Автор | KORECKY-KRÖLL, KATHARINA |
| Автор | LAAHA, GREGOR |
| Автор | DRESSLER, WOLFGANG U. |
| Дата выпуска | 2006 |
| dc.description | The acquisition of German plurals has been the focus of controversy in the last decade. In this paper we claim that degree of productivity (i.e. the capacity of nouns to form potential plurals) plays a key role in determining pace of acquisition. A plural elicitation task was administered to 84 Viennese German-speaking children aged 2;6 to 6;0. Analyses of correct responses showed that the highest scores were obtained with -e plurals, followed by the plural markers -e +U, -er +U, -s and -(e)n. The lowest score was observed for pure Umlaut (U) plurals. Analyses suggested an impact of productivity on the number of correct scores: fully productive and productive plural patterns obtained higher correct scores than weakly productive and non-productive ones. The results of the study support our productivity scale and are compatible both with single-route models and with a race-model variant of the dual-route view. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Early noun plurals in German: regularity, productivity or default?We are grateful to the children who took part in our study, to their families, and to the staff of the kindergartens where the study was conducted. We would also like to thank two anonymous JCL reviewers for comments and helpful suggestions. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the IX International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Madison, July 16–21, 2002. This study was supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and by the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung FWF (P 17276-G03). |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0305000906007379 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7602 |
| Print ISSN | 0305-0009 |
| Журнал | Journal of Child Language |
| Том | 33 |
| Первая страница | 271 |
| Последняя страница | 302 |
| Аффилиация | LAAHA SABINE; Austrian Academy of Sciences; |
| Аффилиация | RAVID DORIT; Tel Aviv University |
| Аффилиация | KORECKY-KRÖLL KATHARINA; Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Аффилиация | LAAHA GREGOR; Boku Vienna |
| Аффилиация | DRESSLER WOLFGANG U.; Vienna University |
| Выпуск | 2 |
