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The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 66] 2021
► pp. 169–196

Chapter 7
Acquisition of derivational morphology in Russian

| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Russian Academy of Sciences

The chapter examines the onset of derivational morphology in the speech production of two Russian boys (aged between 1;5–2;8 and 1;8–3;0). This process involves early nouns, verbs and adjectives built by different derivation methods. Suffixation is typical for nouns and adjectives, whereas new verbs are mostly built by prefixation. Derived verbs and nouns belong to the same grammatical class as the originals and adjectives are formed from nouns. Productive use of derivation was registered several months after the first derivatives occur. The differences between adult-child dyads relate to the set of semantic categories of derived words and the proportion of derivatives belonging to different grammatical classes. Further development of derivation (4;2 to 5;10) in one of the boys was tracked.

Keywords: derivation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, Russian first language acquisition
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Affixation vs. non-affixation morphology
    • 1.2State of the art
  • 2.Data
    • 2.1Nominal derivatives in CS
    • 2.2Adjective derivatives
    • 2.3Verb derivatives in CS
  • 3.Early derivational patterns in CS
    • 3.1Derivational nominal patterns
    • 3.2Derivational adjective patterns
    • 3.3Derivational verb patterns
      • 3.3.1General remarks
      • 3.3.2Postfix models of verb formation
      • 3.3.3Suffix models of verb formation
      • 3.3.4Prefix models of verb formation
  • 4.Development of derivatives in CS
    • 4.1Development of nominal derivatives in CS
    • 4.2Development of adjectival derivatives in CS
    • 4.3Development of verb derivatives in CS
  • 5.CS vs. CDS
    • 5.1Input-output relationship in nominal derivation
    • 5.2Input-output relationship in adjective derivation
    • 5.3Input-output relationship in verb derivation
  • 6.A brief overview of derivational morphology in the late stages of observation
  • 7.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 10 November 2021
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