Ursula Stephany
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ursula Stephany plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 2. The development of derivation in early Greek first language acquisition The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective, Mattes, Veronika, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 21–52 | Chapter
This study is concerned with the development of derivational prefixation and suffixation in early Greek language acquisition and is based on the speech of a monolingual Greek girl from 1;8 to 3;0 years in interaction with her mother (Katis Corpus). The most productive derivational affixes are… read more
2017 Introduction Nominal Compound Acquisition, Dressler, Wolfgang U., F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 12. Contrastive lexical typology of German and Greek child speech and child-directed speech Nominal Compound Acquisition, Dressler, Wolfgang U., F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch (eds.), pp. 275–286 | Chapter
While both German and Greek are rich in compounding devices and nominal compounds represent the most frequent compounding type in both languages, the amount of nominal compounds occurring in early child speech is much more limited in Greek than in German. Since this difference cannot be explained… read more
2017 Chapter 5. Compounding in early Greek language acquisition Nominal Compound Acquisition, Dressler, Wolfgang U., F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch (eds.), pp. 119–143 | Chapter
The early acquisition of Greek compounds by two monolingual Greek girls aged between 1;8 and 3;0 years is studied in a usage-based framework. Special importance is attached to the morphological structure of Greek compound types occurring in CS and CDS, since Greek nominal compound formation does… read more
2007 4. Diminutives in Greek child language The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 89–123 | Chapter
In this chapter, the emergence and use of the forms and functions of the most frequent diminutive suffixes occurring in the longitudinal data of a Greek monolingual child from age 1;8 to 3;0 are studied and compared to childdirected speech, which is rich in diminutives and hypocoristics.… read more