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First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learnersEdited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 45] 2008
► pp. 31–59
Edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 45] 2008
► pp. 31–59
2. The development and interaction of Case and Number in early Russian
This chapter reports the results of a spontaneous speech study on the interaction between Case and Number in child Russian. Following Hoekstra & Hyams (1995, 1996) and Müller (1994), we hypothesize that the Number head is initially underspecified in child grammars and represents [+singular] only. Our results support this hypothesis, exhibiting almost flawless Case licensing in the singular, but failure to use plural Cased forms correctly between the ages 1;8–2;0 and to a lesser extent between the ages 2;1–2;6. Our results also support the Full Clause or Full Competence Hypothesis (Hyams 1992; Wexler 1992; Poeppel & Wexler 1993), according to which functional categories are present in child grammar from the beginning.
Keywords: Case, Number, Russian child language, underspecification
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Mitrofanova, Natalia
2018. Early Underspecification of Functional Categories: Evidence from the Acquisition of Locative PPs in Russian. Language Acquisition 25:4 ► pp. 341 ff. 
Romanova, Natalia & Kira Gor
2017. PROCESSING OF GENDER AND NUMBER AGREEMENT IN RUSSIAN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 39:1 ► pp. 97 ff.
Ud Deen, Kamil
2017. The Acquisition of Morphology. In The Handbook of Psycholinguistics, ► pp. 567 ff.
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