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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. 197–216

Chapter 8
The acquisition of the Lithuanian derivational system

| Vytautas Magnus University
| Vytautas Magnus University | St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University
| Vytautas Magnus University

This study is based on the longitudinal corpus data of two Lithuanian children (1;7–2;7). The aim of the research is to analyse the production of suffixed and prefixed nouns, verbs, and adjectives in CS and CDS during the early stages of the acquisition of Lithuanian morphology. The acquisition of the Lithuanian derivational system seems to be quite an effortless process. Although a considerable number of errors occurred at the initial stages, the first derivational families emerged already at the age of 1;8–1;9, and the number of errors started to decrease rapidly. The period during which the first derivatives emerge in child speech corresponds to the transition from a premorphological to a protomorphological stage.

Keywords: Lithuanian derivational morphology, verb, noun, prefix, suffix
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Derivational morphology in Lithuanian
    • 2.1Noun formation
      • 2.1.1Denominal nouns
      • 2.1.2Deadjectival nouns
      • 2.1.3Deverbal nouns
    • 2.2Verb formation
      • 2.2.1Denominal verbs
      • 2.2.2Deadjectival verbs
      • 2.2.3Deverbal verbs
    • 2.3Adjective formation
      • 2.3.1Denominal adjectives
      • 2.3.2Deadjectival adjectives
      • 2.3.3Deverbal adjectives
  • 3.Acquisition data and methodology
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1First occurrence
    • 4.2Productive usage
    • 4.3Error analysis
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 10 November 2021
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