Morphophonological categories of noun plurals in Hebrew: a developmental study

Ravid, Dorit; Schiff, Rachel

doi:10.1515/ling.2009.002

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“…We suggest that the work presented here is a better test case of the order of componential acquisition because it addresses two handshape phenomena that are closely related. Accordingly, our findings align more closely with those found for spoken language (MacWhinney, 1978, Ravid & Schiff, 2009); namely that phonology precedes morphology.…”

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Handshape complexity as a precursor to phonology: Variation, emergence, and acquisition

Brentari

Coppola²,

Cho

et al. 2016

Language Acquisition

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In this paper two dimensions of handshape complexity are analyzed as potential building blocks of phonological contrast-joint complexity and finger group complexity. We ask whether sign language patterns are elaborations of those seen in the gestures produced by hearing people without speech (pantomime) or a more radical re-organization of them. Data from adults and children are analyzed to address issues of cross-linguistic variation, emergence, and acquisition.Study 1 addresses these issues in adult signers and gesturers from the United States, Italy, China, and Nicaragua. Study 2 addresses these issues in child and adult groups (signers and gesturers) from the United States, Italy, and Nicaragua. We argue that handshape undergoes a fairly radical reorganization, including loss and reorganization of iconicity and feature redistribution, as phonologization takes place in both of these dimensions. Moreover, while the patterns investigated here are not evidence of duality of patterning, we conclude that they are indeed phonological, and that they appear earlier than related morphosyntactic patterns that use the same types of handshape.

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Handshape complexity as a precursor to phonology: Variation, emergence, and acquisition

Brentari

Coppola²,

Cho

et al. 2016

Language Acquisition

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“…The independence of phonological and morphological representations over the course of development is evidence for the independence of these levels of representation, even if the two are aligned. Accordingly, our findings align more closely with those found for typical language acquisition in spoken and sign languages (MacWhinney 1978, Ravid & Schiff 2009), namely that phonology precedes morphology. The research on ABSL argues for a different conclusion with regard to which component appears first—phonology or morphology.…”

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Language Emergence

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Goldin‐Meadow

2017

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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Language emergence describes moments in historical time when nonlinguistic systems become linguistic. Because language can be invented de novo in the manual modality, this offers insight into the emergence of language in ways that the oral modality cannot. Here we focus on homesign, gestures developed by deaf individuals who cannot acquire spoken language and have not been exposed to sign language. We contrast homesign with (a) gestures that hearing individuals produce when they speak, as these cospeech gestures are a potential source of input to homesigners, and (b) established sign languages, as these codified systems display the linguistic structure that homesign has the potential to assume. We find that the manual modality takes on linguistic properties, even in the hands of a child not exposed to a language model. But it grows into full-blown language only with the support of a community that transmits the system to the next generation.*

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“…In this context, such language dyads as Russian and Hebrew and Russian and German might be of particular interest, since both languages include cases of irregularity in gender assignment. Nevertheless, there are considerable differences between these languages in the nature of this irregularity and in its rate of acquisition by the monolingual children (Laaha, Ravid, Korecky-Kröll, Laaha, & Dressler, 2006;Ravid & Schiff, 2009). …”

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“…Early development of inflectional morphology depends on the consistency and transparency of inflection forms (Brown, 1973). Regular forms are acquired before irregular forms (Berman, 1985(Berman, , 2004Ravid, 1995aRavid, , 1995b, and full control of inflectional systems takes years to accomplish (Ravid & Schiff, 2009).…”

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Acquisition of Russian gender agreement by monolingual and bilingual children

Schwartz

Minkov

Protassova

et al. 2014

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aim and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions:The main goal of this study was to examine noun-adjective gender agreement in Russian by comparing bilingual children with diverse L2 backgrounds (English, Finnish, German, and Hebrew) with age-matched monolingual children and monolinguals one year younger. This comparison was made to investigate the influence of L2 grammar on the acquisition of gender agreement by (L1) Russian-speaking children. Design/Methodology/Approach: The participants included four groups of 4-5-year-old bilingual children with Russian as L1 and English, German, Finnish, or Hebrew as L2, who were compared to monolingual children in Russia in two age groups (3-4 and 4-5 years old). The children were matched by socioeconomic status and parents' educational background. All children were tested individually during one testing session. Agreement data were elicited using a semistructured elicitation test, with verbal and visual stimuli. Data and Analysis: We used qualitative data analysis to identify types and categories of errors, and quantitative data analysis to compare the tendencies of noun-adjective gender agreement in Russian (L1) between the groups. Findings/Conclusions: Development of gender agreement in the bilingual children from different L2 backgrounds was qualitatively similar to that of the 3-4-year-old monolingual Russian-speaking children. This result suggests that bilingual development in L1 follows the same developmental path as monolingual development, albeit with a delay. In addition, bilingual children whose L2 has grammatical gender (German, Hebrew) outperformed the other bilinguals on gender agreement, indicating that the presence of a grammatical category in both languages spoken by a bilingual facilitates category acquisition. Originality and Significance/Implications: The study contributes to the discussion on how the transparency and phonological saliency might affect the bilingual children's acquisition of inflectional morphology and on how influence of L2 on L1 might in some cases help and in other cases impede the acquisition of L1.

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Morphophonological categories of noun plurals in Hebrew: a developmental study

Cited by 47 publications

References 26 publications

Handshape complexity as a precursor to phonology: Variation, emergence, and acquisition

Handshape complexity as a precursor to phonology: Variation, emergence, and acquisition

Language Emergence

Acquisition of Russian gender agreement by monolingual and bilingual children

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