Chapter 11
Noun and verb derivations in early Turkish child and child-directed
speech
This chapter presents the emergence of derivational
morphology in nouns and verbs in the speech of two Turkish-speaking
monolingual girls between the ages 1;3 and 3;0, taking into account the
patterns in their child-directed speech. Derivational morphology emerges
early, before age 3;0, although compounding is an option in addition to
derivation in the language. In both children’s speech the causative is the
first derivational morpheme and it emerges simultaneously with inflections
followed by other types of derivations. Instrument nouns emerge earlier than
agent nouns in both children’s speech. The study further shows that children
with different developmental paces follow similar paths in their acquisition
of derivational morphology and their speech reflect the derivational
patterns in their child-directed speech.
Article outline
- 1.Derivation in Turkish
- 2.Acquisition of derivation
- 3.Method
- 4.Results
- 4.1Emergence of morphology in different paces
- 4.2Derivation versus other word-formation options in CDS and CS
- 4.3Verb derivations: An overview
- 4.4Emergence of verb derivations
- 4.5Noun derivations: An overview
- 4.6Emergence of noun derivations
- 4.7Neologisms
- 4.8Agent vs. instrument nouns
- 5.Discussion and conclusion
-
Notes
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