219-7677
10
7500817
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers
onix@benjamins.nl
201608250352
ONIX title feed
eng
01
EUR
43006863
03
01
01
JB
John Benjamins Publishing Company
01
JB code
LALD 43 Eb
15
9789027292896
06
10.1075/lald.43
13
2006052653
DG
002
02
01
LALD
02
0925-0123
Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
43
01
The Acquisition of Diminutives
The
Acquisition of Diminutives
A cross-linguistic perspective
01
lald.43
01
https://benjamins.com
02
https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.43
1
B01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
Vytautas Magnus University
2
B01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
University of Vienna
01
eng
360
vi
352
LAN009000
v.2006
CF
2
24
JB Subject Scheme
LIN.LA
Language acquisition
24
JB Subject Scheme
LIN.MORPH
Morphology
24
JB Subject Scheme
LIN.THEOR
Theoretical linguistics
06
01
This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These languages differ in various aspects relevant for the acquisition of diminutives and the development of pragmatics in early child language. Diminutive formation often tends to be the first pattern of word formation to emerge. The main reason for this seems to lie in the pragmatic functions of endearment, empathy, and sympathy, which make diminutives particularly appropriate for child-centred communication. A main topic of this book is the relation of emergence and early development between diminutives and other categories of word formation and inflection. The greater degree of morphological productivity and transparency, as well as phonological saliency, favors the use of diminutives. In this case diminutives may facilitate the acquisition of inflection.
04
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lald.43.png
04
03
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027253033.jpg
04
03
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027253033.tif
06
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lald.43.hb.png
07
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lald.43.png
25
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lald.43.hb.png
27
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lald.43.hb.png
10
01
JB code
lald.43.01sav
1
12
12
Miscellaneous
1
01
Introduction
1
A01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
2
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
10
01
JB code
lald.43.02sav
13
41
29
Chapter
2
01
1. Form and meaning of diminutives in Lithuanian child language
1
A01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
01
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the acquisition of diminutives from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. Diminutives in Lithuanian present an interesting case not only in terms of morphopragmatics (a feature which is shared by Lithuanian as well as other languages), but also from a languagespecific point of view. We suggest that the early and frequent use of diminutives by the Lithuanian child is due to the fact that it facilitates the acquisition of declensional noun endings by restricting the number of paradigm patterns to 3 instead of the traditional 12 declension classes.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.03pro
43
72
30
Chapter
3
01
2. Diminutives in Russian at the early stages of acquisition
1
A01
Ekaterina Protassova
Protassova, Ekaterina
Ekaterina
Protassova
2
A01
Maria D. Voeikova
Voeikova, Maria D.
Maria D.
Voeikova
01
Two Russian children, a boy and a girl, were observed during the first steps of their use of diminutives. Having a different language proficiency and strategy of learning, the children under observation demonstrated a clear difference in the acquisition of diminutives: the early speaking girl Varja (as well as her mother) shows a high frequency of diminutives already at 1;6, whereas the later speaking Filipp reaches his maximum only about 2;0. It is argued that the most important pragmatic function of consciously used diminutives in cds as well as in cs is the creation of a familiar, personal world. The mothers try to familiarize the children with the surroundings, to make the world good for their children and to stress the relative smallness of the things that surround the children in contrast to those of grown-ups. Such distinctions are, in the Russian world, important both for the instruction and for the emotional comfort of a child. In addition, diminutives play an important role in facilitating the acquisition of case system: in the early phases both children use more indirect case forms of diminutives than of simplex nouns. This may be explained by the fact that diminutives end with similar codas. After children get a good command of using nominal case suffixes, this advantage of diminutives is of no help anymore.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.04pal
73
88
16
Chapter
4
01
3. The acquisition of diminutives in Croatian
1
A01
Marijan Palmovic
Palmovic, Marijan
Marijan
Palmovic
01
Diminutives are very frequent in Croatian child language; children acquire them before they master many other elements of morphology. A great majority of diminutives used by the child are nouns. Although diminutives phonologically are more difficult than the simplex forms, diminutives make paradigms more transparent and reduce the number of noun classes. In this study the data of one Croatian girl were analyzed. The analysis includes frequencies, oppositions of diminutives and simplex forms, mini-paradigms and a comparison of child’s production and parental input.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.05tho
89
123
35
Chapter
5
01
4. Diminutives in Greek child language
1
A01
Evangelia Thomadaki
Thomadaki, Evangelia
Evangelia
Thomadaki
2
A01
Ursula Stephany
Stephany, Ursula
Ursula
Stephany
01
In this chapter, the emergence and use of the forms and functions of the most frequent diminutive suffixes occurring in the longitudinal data of a Greek monolingual child from age 1;8 to 3;0 are studied and compared to childdirected speech, which is rich in diminutives and hypocoristics. Furthermore, the distinction between pragmatic and semantic functions of diminutives as compared to simple nouns is explored, focussing on the innovative use of a nonstandard suffix in this particular mother-child dyad. Since diminutives occur in a high number of singular and plural forms both type- and tokenwise from 1;9 on, the relation between derivational and inflectional morphology in early child Greek is discussed.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.06noc
125
153
29
Chapter
6
01
5. The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Italian morphology
1
A01
Sabrina Noccetti
Noccetti, Sabrina
Sabrina
Noccetti
2
A01
Anna De Marco
De Marco, Anna
Anna
De Marco
3
A01
Livia Tonelli
Tonelli, Livia
Livia
Tonelli
4
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
01
The paper deals with the acquisition of diminutives by four Italian children with three objectives: to highlight parallelisms and differences in input and output data; to contrast the mechanism of item-based learning (cf. Tomasello 2003) to the dual-route model (Clahsen et al. 2003) as regards the acquisition of diminutives; to investigate whether the productive use of diminutives is a simplifying strategy for acquiring the morphology of non-productive, opaque inflectional classes. The analysis of data reveals a common developmental pattern in the children and that the acquisition of diminutive suffixes (especially -<i>ino</i>) can be ascribed to children’s rule extraction. The children, more markedly two of them, use the regular inflection of the diminutives as a strategy to simplify the input data.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.07mar
155
181
27
Chapter
7
01
6. The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish
a useful device
1
A01
Victoria Marrero
Marrero, Victoria
Victoria
Marrero
2
A01
Carmen Aguirre
Aguirre, Carmen
Carmen
Aguirre
3
A01
María José Albalá
Albalá, María José
María José
Albalá
01
The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish, facilitated by phonoprosodical, morphological and pragmatic means, becomes more than a simple morphopragmatic device to be acquired. We propose that it provides the child with essential cues for grammatical segmentation, which proves very useful in later stages of language development.
To test this hypothesis, an analysis of two longitudinal corpora of Spanish L1 has been carried out. Quantitative considerations included type/token ratio in children and cds across ages and word classes; qualitative considerations included a search for the emergence of the first contrast (mini-paradigms). Both perspectives confirm a pattern of a very rapid development and mastery of diminutive formation.
Some other aspects, such as morphophonology, suffix selection and spontaneity versus imitation, are also considered. We round up with some considerations regarding the semantics and pragmatics of diminutives in Spanish.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.08sou
183
206
24
Chapter
8
01
7. A longitudinal study of the acquisition of diminutives in Dutch
1
A01
Agnita Souman
Souman, Agnita
Agnita
Souman
2
A01
Steven Gillis
Gillis, Steven
Steven
Gillis
01
The acquisition of diminutives in the language of three Dutch-speaking children from the Netherlands is described on the basis of longitudinal observational data between the age of 21 and 36 months. It is shown that diminutives occur early, i.e. in the first stage of vocabulary development, and that the frequency of diminutives is high and increases over time. The language of the parents does not shown such a development, but they seem to provide more diminutive lemmas in the first stages of diminutive acquisition. Furthermore, a higher occurrence of diminutives is found in child directed speech than in adult speech. The allomorphs that occur in child directed speech are used with relative similar frequency in child speech, except for certain low frequent ones.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.09kor
207
230
24
Chapter
9
01
8. Diminutives and hypocoristics in Austrian German (AG)
1
A01
Katharina Korecky-Kröll
Korecky-Kröll, Katharina
Katharina
Korecky-Kröll
2
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
01
This paper intends to show how diminutives emerge in the corpus of two children who acquire a language which has productive diminutive formation, but where diminutives play a minor role due to low frequency; they do not serve as triggers or facilitators in the acquisition of German noun morphology. In addition, we will look into input-dependent inter-individual variation.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.10bod
231
262
32
Chapter
10
01
9. Acquisition of diminutives in Hungarian
1
A01
Péter Bodor
Bodor, Péter
Péter
Bodor
2
A01
Virág Barcza
Barcza, Virág
Virág
Barcza
01
The chapter presents a longitudinal study on the acquisition of diminutives in Hungarian from the age of two to three. The analysis shows that the two children in the study followed their own particular paths while acquiring diminutive suffixes. Grammatical productivity did not exert an unequivocal effect on the sequence of acquisition: both children started with unproductive suffixes such as <i>-u </i>and -<i>ó</i>, with the productive <i>-kA </i>and the semi-productive <i>-i</i>, whereas the grammatically most productive <i>-cskA </i>was produced later. Our analysis indicates that matching relevant functions to diminutive suffixes is probably a later development: diminutive suffixes did not convey the semantic meaning of “smallness”; a positive emotional evaluation as a pragmatic value of diminutives was not clearly present in the analyzed conversations either.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.11laa
263
278
16
Chapter
11
01
10. Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child speech
1
A01
Klaus Laalo
Laalo, Klaus
Klaus
Laalo
01
There are various means to form diminutives in Finnish, for example regular suffixation (e.g. <i>isä </i>‘father’ + <i>i </i>> <i>isi </i>‘daddy’) and modification of the stem possibly combined with suffixation (e.g. <i>kissa </i>‘cat’ > <i>kisu </i>‘pussycat’, <i>maha </i>‘stomach’ > <i>masu </i>‘tummy’). The article first deals with the different types of Finnish diminutives and then examines the diminutives of two Finnish-speaking children. In early child language, a trochaic bias is observed. In diminutive formation, there is a tendency towards transparent inflection: when forming diminutives by stem modification, different morphophonological alternations are eliminated and transparent inflection patterns are favoured.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.12ket
279
293
15
Chapter
12
01
11. The (scarcity of) diminutives in Turkish child language
1
A01
F. Nihan Ketrez
Ketrez, F. Nihan
F. Nihan
Ketrez
2
A01
Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Aksu-Koç, Ayhan
Ayhan
Aksu-Koç
01
This study reports that diminutive morphology is not one of the early acquisitions in Turkish child speech (1;3–2;0), although the language has a number of productive diminutive morphemes. Similarly the use of hypocoristic forms of nouns is not a typical property of Turkish child speech. We attribute the scarcity of diminutives and hypocoristic forms in child speech to their infrequent use in the input speech and the complexity of the diminutive formation in the language which does not have properties that could facilitate word learning.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.13hor
295
317
23
Chapter
13
01
12. Acquiring diminutive structures and meanings in Hebrew
An experimental study
1
A01
Anat Hora
Hora, Anat
Anat
Hora
2
A01
Galit Ben-Zvi
Ben-Zvi, Galit
Galit
Ben-Zvi
3
A01
Ronit Levie
Levie, Ronit
Ronit
Levie
4
A01
Dorit Ravid
Ravid, Dorit
Dorit
Ravid
01
The chapter describes an experimental study of the acquisition of derivational diminutives in Hebrew. The study population consisted of 48 children in four age groups: 5–6, 7–8, 10–11, 12–13, and adults. Participants were administered two tasks: an explanation task, and a production task. The learning curves we uncovered begin in kindergarten, with less than one quarter correct productions and about one third correct explanations, and they rise steadily from age 7–8 throughout grade school, especially between ages 9–12. Only from age 12 do Hebrew speakers show that they have mastered the morphological, semantic, pragmatic, and cognitive factors that interact in understanding and producing diminutive forms. Diminutive derivational morphology is thus part of what is termed ‘later language development’, that is, linguistic acquisition during the school years.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.14kem
319
342
24
Chapter
14
01
13. Diminutives provide multiple benefits for language acquisition
1
A01
Vera Kempe
Kempe, Vera
Vera
Kempe
2
A01
Patricia J. Brooks
Brooks, Patricia J.
Patricia J.
Brooks
3
A01
Steven Gillis
Gillis, Steven
Steven
Gillis
01
This chapter explores the hypothesis that diminutive usage in child-directed speech may provide multiple benefits for language acquisition. We summarize a series of experiments that exposed naïve English-speaking adults to Dutch or Russian diminutives, and tested their ability to isolate words in fluent speech or acquire gender categories. Across studies, adults benefited from exposure to diminutives over their simplex counterparts, supporting the hypothesis that diminutives simplify word segmentation and morphology acquisition, by increasing word-ending invariance, regularizing stress patterns, and decreasing irregularity in morpho-syntactic categories. A similar diminutive advantage is observed in experimental studies of first language acquisition: Preschool children produce fewer gender agreement and case marking errors with diminutives than with simplex nouns across several languages (Russian, Serbian, Polish, Lithuanian).
10
01
JB code
lald.43.15sav
343
349
7
Miscellaneous
15
01
Conclusions
1
A01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
2
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
10
01
JB code
lald.43.16sub
351
352
2
Miscellaneous
16
01
Subject index
02
JBENJAMINS
John Benjamins Publishing Company
01
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
NL
04
20070118
2007
John Benjamins
02
WORLD
13
15
9789027253033
01
JB
3
John Benjamins e-Platform
03
jbe-platform.com
09
WORLD
21
01
00
120.00
EUR
R
01
00
101.00
GBP
Z
01
gen
00
180.00
USD
S
828005795
03
01
01
JB
John Benjamins Publishing Company
01
JB code
LALD 43 Hb
15
9789027253033
13
2006052653
BB
01
LALD
02
0925-0123
Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
43
01
The Acquisition of Diminutives
The
Acquisition of Diminutives
A cross-linguistic perspective
01
lald.43
01
https://benjamins.com
02
https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.43
1
B01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
Vytautas Magnus University
2
B01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
University of Vienna
01
eng
360
vi
352
LAN009000
v.2006
CF
2
24
JB Subject Scheme
LIN.LA
Language acquisition
24
JB Subject Scheme
LIN.MORPH
Morphology
24
JB Subject Scheme
LIN.THEOR
Theoretical linguistics
06
01
This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These languages differ in various aspects relevant for the acquisition of diminutives and the development of pragmatics in early child language. Diminutive formation often tends to be the first pattern of word formation to emerge. The main reason for this seems to lie in the pragmatic functions of endearment, empathy, and sympathy, which make diminutives particularly appropriate for child-centred communication. A main topic of this book is the relation of emergence and early development between diminutives and other categories of word formation and inflection. The greater degree of morphological productivity and transparency, as well as phonological saliency, favors the use of diminutives. In this case diminutives may facilitate the acquisition of inflection.
04
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lald.43.png
04
03
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027253033.jpg
04
03
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027253033.tif
06
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lald.43.hb.png
07
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lald.43.png
25
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lald.43.hb.png
27
09
01
https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lald.43.hb.png
10
01
JB code
lald.43.01sav
1
12
12
Miscellaneous
1
01
Introduction
1
A01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
2
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
10
01
JB code
lald.43.02sav
13
41
29
Chapter
2
01
1. Form and meaning of diminutives in Lithuanian child language
1
A01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
01
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the acquisition of diminutives from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. Diminutives in Lithuanian present an interesting case not only in terms of morphopragmatics (a feature which is shared by Lithuanian as well as other languages), but also from a languagespecific point of view. We suggest that the early and frequent use of diminutives by the Lithuanian child is due to the fact that it facilitates the acquisition of declensional noun endings by restricting the number of paradigm patterns to 3 instead of the traditional 12 declension classes.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.03pro
43
72
30
Chapter
3
01
2. Diminutives in Russian at the early stages of acquisition
1
A01
Ekaterina Protassova
Protassova, Ekaterina
Ekaterina
Protassova
2
A01
Maria D. Voeikova
Voeikova, Maria D.
Maria D.
Voeikova
01
Two Russian children, a boy and a girl, were observed during the first steps of their use of diminutives. Having a different language proficiency and strategy of learning, the children under observation demonstrated a clear difference in the acquisition of diminutives: the early speaking girl Varja (as well as her mother) shows a high frequency of diminutives already at 1;6, whereas the later speaking Filipp reaches his maximum only about 2;0. It is argued that the most important pragmatic function of consciously used diminutives in cds as well as in cs is the creation of a familiar, personal world. The mothers try to familiarize the children with the surroundings, to make the world good for their children and to stress the relative smallness of the things that surround the children in contrast to those of grown-ups. Such distinctions are, in the Russian world, important both for the instruction and for the emotional comfort of a child. In addition, diminutives play an important role in facilitating the acquisition of case system: in the early phases both children use more indirect case forms of diminutives than of simplex nouns. This may be explained by the fact that diminutives end with similar codas. After children get a good command of using nominal case suffixes, this advantage of diminutives is of no help anymore.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.04pal
73
88
16
Chapter
4
01
3. The acquisition of diminutives in Croatian
1
A01
Marijan Palmovic
Palmovic, Marijan
Marijan
Palmovic
01
Diminutives are very frequent in Croatian child language; children acquire them before they master many other elements of morphology. A great majority of diminutives used by the child are nouns. Although diminutives phonologically are more difficult than the simplex forms, diminutives make paradigms more transparent and reduce the number of noun classes. In this study the data of one Croatian girl were analyzed. The analysis includes frequencies, oppositions of diminutives and simplex forms, mini-paradigms and a comparison of child’s production and parental input.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.05tho
89
123
35
Chapter
5
01
4. Diminutives in Greek child language
1
A01
Evangelia Thomadaki
Thomadaki, Evangelia
Evangelia
Thomadaki
2
A01
Ursula Stephany
Stephany, Ursula
Ursula
Stephany
01
In this chapter, the emergence and use of the forms and functions of the most frequent diminutive suffixes occurring in the longitudinal data of a Greek monolingual child from age 1;8 to 3;0 are studied and compared to childdirected speech, which is rich in diminutives and hypocoristics. Furthermore, the distinction between pragmatic and semantic functions of diminutives as compared to simple nouns is explored, focussing on the innovative use of a nonstandard suffix in this particular mother-child dyad. Since diminutives occur in a high number of singular and plural forms both type- and tokenwise from 1;9 on, the relation between derivational and inflectional morphology in early child Greek is discussed.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.06noc
125
153
29
Chapter
6
01
5. The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Italian morphology
1
A01
Sabrina Noccetti
Noccetti, Sabrina
Sabrina
Noccetti
2
A01
Anna De Marco
De Marco, Anna
Anna
De Marco
3
A01
Livia Tonelli
Tonelli, Livia
Livia
Tonelli
4
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
01
The paper deals with the acquisition of diminutives by four Italian children with three objectives: to highlight parallelisms and differences in input and output data; to contrast the mechanism of item-based learning (cf. Tomasello 2003) to the dual-route model (Clahsen et al. 2003) as regards the acquisition of diminutives; to investigate whether the productive use of diminutives is a simplifying strategy for acquiring the morphology of non-productive, opaque inflectional classes. The analysis of data reveals a common developmental pattern in the children and that the acquisition of diminutive suffixes (especially -<i>ino</i>) can be ascribed to children’s rule extraction. The children, more markedly two of them, use the regular inflection of the diminutives as a strategy to simplify the input data.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.07mar
155
181
27
Chapter
7
01
6. The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish
a useful device
1
A01
Victoria Marrero
Marrero, Victoria
Victoria
Marrero
2
A01
Carmen Aguirre
Aguirre, Carmen
Carmen
Aguirre
3
A01
María José Albalá
Albalá, María José
María José
Albalá
01
The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish, facilitated by phonoprosodical, morphological and pragmatic means, becomes more than a simple morphopragmatic device to be acquired. We propose that it provides the child with essential cues for grammatical segmentation, which proves very useful in later stages of language development.
To test this hypothesis, an analysis of two longitudinal corpora of Spanish L1 has been carried out. Quantitative considerations included type/token ratio in children and cds across ages and word classes; qualitative considerations included a search for the emergence of the first contrast (mini-paradigms). Both perspectives confirm a pattern of a very rapid development and mastery of diminutive formation.
Some other aspects, such as morphophonology, suffix selection and spontaneity versus imitation, are also considered. We round up with some considerations regarding the semantics and pragmatics of diminutives in Spanish.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.08sou
183
206
24
Chapter
8
01
7. A longitudinal study of the acquisition of diminutives in Dutch
1
A01
Agnita Souman
Souman, Agnita
Agnita
Souman
2
A01
Steven Gillis
Gillis, Steven
Steven
Gillis
01
The acquisition of diminutives in the language of three Dutch-speaking children from the Netherlands is described on the basis of longitudinal observational data between the age of 21 and 36 months. It is shown that diminutives occur early, i.e. in the first stage of vocabulary development, and that the frequency of diminutives is high and increases over time. The language of the parents does not shown such a development, but they seem to provide more diminutive lemmas in the first stages of diminutive acquisition. Furthermore, a higher occurrence of diminutives is found in child directed speech than in adult speech. The allomorphs that occur in child directed speech are used with relative similar frequency in child speech, except for certain low frequent ones.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.09kor
207
230
24
Chapter
9
01
8. Diminutives and hypocoristics in Austrian German (AG)
1
A01
Katharina Korecky-Kröll
Korecky-Kröll, Katharina
Katharina
Korecky-Kröll
2
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
01
This paper intends to show how diminutives emerge in the corpus of two children who acquire a language which has productive diminutive formation, but where diminutives play a minor role due to low frequency; they do not serve as triggers or facilitators in the acquisition of German noun morphology. In addition, we will look into input-dependent inter-individual variation.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.10bod
231
262
32
Chapter
10
01
9. Acquisition of diminutives in Hungarian
1
A01
Péter Bodor
Bodor, Péter
Péter
Bodor
2
A01
Virág Barcza
Barcza, Virág
Virág
Barcza
01
The chapter presents a longitudinal study on the acquisition of diminutives in Hungarian from the age of two to three. The analysis shows that the two children in the study followed their own particular paths while acquiring diminutive suffixes. Grammatical productivity did not exert an unequivocal effect on the sequence of acquisition: both children started with unproductive suffixes such as <i>-u </i>and -<i>ó</i>, with the productive <i>-kA </i>and the semi-productive <i>-i</i>, whereas the grammatically most productive <i>-cskA </i>was produced later. Our analysis indicates that matching relevant functions to diminutive suffixes is probably a later development: diminutive suffixes did not convey the semantic meaning of “smallness”; a positive emotional evaluation as a pragmatic value of diminutives was not clearly present in the analyzed conversations either.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.11laa
263
278
16
Chapter
11
01
10. Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child speech
1
A01
Klaus Laalo
Laalo, Klaus
Klaus
Laalo
01
There are various means to form diminutives in Finnish, for example regular suffixation (e.g. <i>isä </i>‘father’ + <i>i </i>> <i>isi </i>‘daddy’) and modification of the stem possibly combined with suffixation (e.g. <i>kissa </i>‘cat’ > <i>kisu </i>‘pussycat’, <i>maha </i>‘stomach’ > <i>masu </i>‘tummy’). The article first deals with the different types of Finnish diminutives and then examines the diminutives of two Finnish-speaking children. In early child language, a trochaic bias is observed. In diminutive formation, there is a tendency towards transparent inflection: when forming diminutives by stem modification, different morphophonological alternations are eliminated and transparent inflection patterns are favoured.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.12ket
279
293
15
Chapter
12
01
11. The (scarcity of) diminutives in Turkish child language
1
A01
F. Nihan Ketrez
Ketrez, F. Nihan
F. Nihan
Ketrez
2
A01
Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Aksu-Koç, Ayhan
Ayhan
Aksu-Koç
01
This study reports that diminutive morphology is not one of the early acquisitions in Turkish child speech (1;3–2;0), although the language has a number of productive diminutive morphemes. Similarly the use of hypocoristic forms of nouns is not a typical property of Turkish child speech. We attribute the scarcity of diminutives and hypocoristic forms in child speech to their infrequent use in the input speech and the complexity of the diminutive formation in the language which does not have properties that could facilitate word learning.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.13hor
295
317
23
Chapter
13
01
12. Acquiring diminutive structures and meanings in Hebrew
An experimental study
1
A01
Anat Hora
Hora, Anat
Anat
Hora
2
A01
Galit Ben-Zvi
Ben-Zvi, Galit
Galit
Ben-Zvi
3
A01
Ronit Levie
Levie, Ronit
Ronit
Levie
4
A01
Dorit Ravid
Ravid, Dorit
Dorit
Ravid
01
The chapter describes an experimental study of the acquisition of derivational diminutives in Hebrew. The study population consisted of 48 children in four age groups: 5–6, 7–8, 10–11, 12–13, and adults. Participants were administered two tasks: an explanation task, and a production task. The learning curves we uncovered begin in kindergarten, with less than one quarter correct productions and about one third correct explanations, and they rise steadily from age 7–8 throughout grade school, especially between ages 9–12. Only from age 12 do Hebrew speakers show that they have mastered the morphological, semantic, pragmatic, and cognitive factors that interact in understanding and producing diminutive forms. Diminutive derivational morphology is thus part of what is termed ‘later language development’, that is, linguistic acquisition during the school years.
10
01
JB code
lald.43.14kem
319
342
24
Chapter
14
01
13. Diminutives provide multiple benefits for language acquisition
1
A01
Vera Kempe
Kempe, Vera
Vera
Kempe
2
A01
Patricia J. Brooks
Brooks, Patricia J.
Patricia J.
Brooks
3
A01
Steven Gillis
Gillis, Steven
Steven
Gillis
01
This chapter explores the hypothesis that diminutive usage in child-directed speech may provide multiple benefits for language acquisition. We summarize a series of experiments that exposed naïve English-speaking adults to Dutch or Russian diminutives, and tested their ability to isolate words in fluent speech or acquire gender categories. Across studies, adults benefited from exposure to diminutives over their simplex counterparts, supporting the hypothesis that diminutives simplify word segmentation and morphology acquisition, by increasing word-ending invariance, regularizing stress patterns, and decreasing irregularity in morpho-syntactic categories. A similar diminutive advantage is observed in experimental studies of first language acquisition: Preschool children produce fewer gender agreement and case marking errors with diminutives than with simplex nouns across several languages (Russian, Serbian, Polish, Lithuanian).
10
01
JB code
lald.43.15sav
343
349
7
Miscellaneous
15
01
Conclusions
1
A01
Ineta Savickienė
Savickienė, Ineta
Ineta
Savickienė
2
A01
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Wolfgang U.
Dressler
10
01
JB code
lald.43.16sub
351
352
2
Miscellaneous
16
01
Subject index
02
JBENJAMINS
John Benjamins Publishing Company
01
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
NL
04
20070118
2007
John Benjamins
02
WORLD
01
245
mm
02
164
mm
08
795
gr
01
JB
1
John Benjamins Publishing Company
+31 20 6304747
+31 20 6739773
bookorder@benjamins.nl
01
https://benjamins.com
01
WORLD
US CA MX
21
29
20
01
02
JB
1
00
120.00
EUR
R
02
02
JB
1
00
127.20
EUR
R
01
JB
10
bebc
+44 1202 712 934
+44 1202 712 913
sales@bebc.co.uk
03
GB
21
20
02
02
JB
1
00
101.00
GBP
Z
01
JB
2
John Benjamins North America
+1 800 562-5666
+1 703 661-1501
benjamins@presswarehouse.com
01
https://benjamins.com
01
US CA MX
21
20
01
gen
02
JB
1
00
180.00
USD