Sabine Laaha
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sabine Laaha plays a role.
2014 Development of adjective frequencies across semantic classes: A growth curve analysis of child speech and child-directed speech Language, Interaction and Acquisition 5:2, pp. 185–226 | Article
This paper is a longitudinal investigation of adjective use by children aged 1;8−2;8, speaking Dutch, German, French, Hebrew, and Turkish, and by their caregivers. Each adjective token in transcripts of spontaneous speech was coded for semantic class. The development of adjective use in each… read more
2013 Sonority, gender and the impact of suffix predictability on the acquisition of German noun plurals Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 81–99 | Article
The acquisition of German noun plurals has been the topic of many studies and of much controversy. This study presents a new method of assessing distributional properties of plural suffix application in German in which the predictability of a given suffix (-s, -(e)n, -e, -er or zero) is calculated… read more
2013 On the role of input for children’s early production of bare infinitives in German and French: Frequency, informativeness, salience Language, Interaction and Acquisition 4:1, pp. 70–90 | Article
The “optional infinitive” phenomenon, i.e. the existence of an early developmental phase in which children show a strong preference for using bare non-finite verb forms, has been the subject of many studies and much controversy. The aim of this study is to assess the role of distributional… read more
2012 Suffix predictability and stem transparency in the acquisition of German noun plurals Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 217–236 | Article
This study examines the impact of suffix and stem properties on children’s acquisition of German noun plural morphology. As to suffix selection, we distinguish three levels of predictability: highly predictable, partially predictable and exceptional, based on sonority/gender distributions in actual… read more
2011 Sonority, gender and the impact of suffix predictability on the acquisition of German noun plurals Grammaticalization and first language acquisition – Crosslinguistic perspectives/Grammaticalisation et acquisition des langues premières - Perspectives interlangues, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 82–100 | Article
The acquisition of German noun plurals has been the topic of many studies and of much controversy. This study presents a new method of assessing distributional properties of plural suffix application in German in which the predictability of a given suffix (-s, -(e)n, -e, -er or zero) is calculated… read more
2008 Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. 25–60 | Article