Chapter published in:
The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha
William Forshaw
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 30] 2021
► pp. 57–80

Chapter 5
Early verbs

Article outline
  • 5.1Structure of bipartite stem verbs
    • 5.1.1Prosodic licensing account
      • 5.1.1.1Monosyllabic verbal PWord targets
      • 5.1.1.2Disyllabic verbal PWord targets (ˈσ σ)
      • 5.1.1.3Trisyllabic verbal PWord targets (σ ˈσ σ)
      • 5.1.1.4Tetrasyllabic verbal PWord targets (σ σ ˈσ σ)
      • 5.1.1.5Developmental stages of verbal PWords
  • 5.2Semantics and pragmatics of early verbs
  • 5.3Summary