Chapter published in:
The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha
William Forshaw
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 30] 2021
► pp. 29–48

Chapter 3
Acquisition of verbs and verb morphology

Article outline
  • 3.1Crosslinguistic study of language acquisition
  • 3.2Early verb production
    • 3.2.1Phonological and prosodic accounts
      • 3.2.1.1Perceptual salience
      • 3.2.1.2Prosodic licensing model
    • 3.2.2Morphosyntactic accounts
      • 3.2.2.1Perceptual salience and grammar
      • 3.2.2.2Root infinitives and analogue hypotheses
  • 3.3Verb lexicon in acquisition
    • 3.3.1Semantics of early verbs
    • 3.3.2Verbs and pragmatic development
      • 3.3.2.1Speech act development
  • 3.4Acquisition of inflectional morphology
    • 3.4.1Nativist/generativist approaches
    • 3.4.2Usage-based approaches
    • 3.4.3Protomorphology
    • 3.4.4Morphological complexity
    • 3.4.5Quantifying morphological development
  • 3.5Acquisition of bipartite constructions