Children’s creation of novel words is thought to be guided by several variables of their language(s), including the simplicity and frequency of required morphology and/or target structure (Clark, 1993). This study documents children’s acquisition of French deverbal Verb–Object compounds (e.g., lave-vaisselle ‘wash-dishes’ meaning dishwasher). Research from previous studies suggests that simple infrequent forms such as these will be acquired later (i.e., around 5 years). 34 monolingual French-speaking children between 3 and 5 years produced and indicated their understanding of novel deverbal compounds. The children’s vocabulary size was more strongly positively related to their production and comprehension of novel compounds than age. In comprehension, children often misinterpreted the Object of novel compounds as the subject of the action in the Verb. These results confirm that this simple infrequent form is acquired late.
2008. Clausal order and the acquisition of Dutch deverbal compounds. Morphology 18:2 ► pp. 143 ff.
Brisard, Frank, Eva Laarman & Elena Nicoladis
2008. Clausal order and the acquisition of Dutch deverbal compounds. Morphology 18:2 ► pp. 143 ff.
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria & Stanca Somesfalean
2013. The Definite Determiner in Romanian: A Biolinguistic Perspective. Australian Journal of Linguistics 33:2 ► pp. 121 ff.
Nicoladis, Elena & Andrea Krott
2007. Word Family Size and French‐Speaking Children's Segmentation of Existing Compounds. Language Learning 57:2 ► pp. 201 ff.
Nicoladis, Elena, Alyssa Rose & Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson
2010. Thinking for speaking and cross-linguistic transfer in preschool bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 13:3 ► pp. 345 ff.
NICOLADIS, ELENA, JIANHUI SONG & PAULA MARENTETTE
2012. Do young bilinguals acquire past tense morphology like monolinguals, only later? Evidence from French–English and Chinese–English bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics 33:3 ► pp. 457 ff.
Riches, Nick G., Tom Loucas, Gillian Baird, Tony Charman & Emily Simonoff
2012. Interpretation of compound nouns by adolescents with specific language impairment and autism spectrum disorders: An investigation of phenotypic overlap. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 14:4 ► pp. 307 ff.
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