Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective: Evidence from Child Hebrew

Uziel-Karl, Sigal

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“…A similar predicament exists in Hebrew, where overt subjects are absent in specific contexts, with subject inflection manifested in verb morphology. Consequently, MLU-w might underestimate language skills by not capturing the complexity of verb morphology, which is indicative of advanced proficiency (Uziel-Karl, 2001).…”

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“…Productivity definitions are based on the idea that there should be some kind of variation in the forms of a word used by the child. Uziel-Karl (2001) proposes productivity criteria based on Bloom (1991). 'Children are said to have acquired a given inflectional category if and only if they demonstrate a productive, self-initiated use of this inflection.…”

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Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian

Tchintcharauli,

Tsintsadze,

Damenia

et al. 2024

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This article explores the applicability of mean length of utterance (MLU) as a language assessment measure for Georgian child language, as to-date, Georgian, a morphologically rich language with numerous inflectional categories, experiences an extensive lack of instruments for early language assessment. To this end, a set of guidelines for calculating Georgian MLU was developed based on the analysis of a longitudinal corpus of two Georgian-speaking children aged 12–35 months. This was supported by the findings of previous studies on Georgian acquisition. Furthermore, the guidelines were used to compare MLU in morphemes (MLU-m) with MLU in words (MLU-w) and MLU in syllables (MLU-s) to determine the most suitable method for assessing morphological development in Georgian. These results indicate that MLU-m closely aligns with the description of language development in Georgian children. MLU-s is useful for demonstrating early linguistic development, while MLU-w correlates with age but does not capture changes within words over time. Further testing on a larger corpus is needed to refine the guidelines for more accurate assessment of Georgian-speaking children.

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Section: Mean Length Of Utterancementioning

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Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian

Tchintcharauli,

Tsintsadze,

Damenia

et al. 2024

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“…In the present analysis, too, productivity is interpreted not as characterizing forms or operations per se , but rather children’s USE of linguistic forms as reflecting their knowledge of the ambient language (Ingram, 1989). Children’s initial use of grammatical elements is not necessarily productive, but often rote-learned (see, for example, MacWhinney, 1975, on Hungarian; Bowerman, 1985, on English; Bassano, 2000, on French; Kilani-Schoch & Dressler, 2002, on German; and also Armon-Lotem & Berman, 2003; Uziel-Karl, 2001, on Hebrew). That is, while inflections may surface early on in child language, they do not necessarily manifest morphologically motivated knowledge.…”

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“…Research dealing specifically with verb inflections includes Berman and Dromi’s (1984) cross-sectional analysis of acquisition of verb-tense, and studies of children with specific language impairment (SLI) compared with normally developing controls (Dromi, Leonard, Adam, & Zadoneisky-Ehrlich, 1999; Dromi, Leonard, & Shteiman, 1993). The domain of Hebrew verb-acquisition has also been the topic of longitudinal research (based in part on analyses of speech samples from two of the four children in the present study) conducted in two doctoral dissertations, each with a different focus: parameter-setting in a Minimalist Framework (Armon-Lotem, 2006) and Verb-Argument Structure (Uziel-Karl, 2001).…”

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Developing structural specification: Productivity in early Hebrew verb usage

Lustigman

2012

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The study investigates acquisition of verb inflections by four monolingual Hebrewacquiring children from middle-class backgrounds, audio-recorded in longitudinal, weekly samples at a mean age-range of between 18 and 26 months. Productive use of inflectional morphology is shown to manifest increasing structural specification, as a function of children's developing knowledge of morphology-syntax interfaces illustrated by Subject-Verb agreement. The verbs used by all four children evolve from nonspecified stem-like forms via sporadic structural alternations to initial productivity in the use of largely under-specified inflected forms. This process of increasing structural specification is interpreted as reflecting paradigmatic/syntagmatic interfacings in developing grammatical productivity, such that eventually a full range of inflectional contrasts is manifested in all and only appropriate syntactic environments.

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Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective: Evidence from Child Hebrew

Cited by 2 publications

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Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian

Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian

Developing structural specification: Productivity in early Hebrew verb usage

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