Chapter 4. Early development of compounds in two French children’s corpora

Kilani-Schoch, Marianne

doi:10.1075/lald.61.05kil

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“…In Emma's data, 2;1 seems to be a turning point: the 3 richest series plus one and N -V pairs are attested, most errors appear, and so do prefixed verbs. In both children this corresponds to late protomorphology, more precisely to one month before morphology proper (see Kilani-Schoch 2017).…”

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Derivational patterns in spontaneous data of French-speaking parent-child interactions before age three

Kilani-Schoch

Xanthos

2021

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

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This chapter is a first step towards the characterisation of the morphological structure of the French lexicon in early first language acquisition, i.e. before children coin novel word formations. Focusing on nouns and verbs, it analyses the variety of derivational means used by toddlers and caregivers in two corpora of French-speaking children (1;4/1;6-2;11). A comparison is done with a sample of adult-directed speech (ADS). Findings on derivation are compared with previous observations on compounds in the same data. The results display the development of tight-knit morphological relationships within the lexicon and a clear prevalence of suffixation over other derivational means and compounding. Along with errors in affixed words, these relationships provide cues of early detection of derivational morphology in child speech.

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