Error Patterns in Young German Children's "Wh"-Questions

Autor/inn/en	Schmerse, Daniel; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	Error Patterns in Young German Children's "Wh"-Questions
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 40 (2013) 3, S.656-671 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000912000104
Schlagwörter	Error Patterns; Young Children; German; Language Acquisition; Child Language; Longitudinal Studies; Intonation; Acoustics; Correlation; Phonology; Toddlers; Pragmatics; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Discourse Analysis; Language Patterns; Error Analysis (Language) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fehlertyp; Frühe Kindheit; Deutscher; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Akustik; Korrelation; Fonologie; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Pragmalinguistik; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Diskursanalyse; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse
Abstract	In this article we report two studies: a detailed longitudinal analysis of errors in "wh"-questions from six German-learning children (age 2 ; 0-3 ; 0) and an analysis of the prosodic characteristics of "wh"-questions in German child-directed speech. The results of the first study demonstrate that German-learning children frequently omit the initial "wh"-word. A lexical analysis of "wh"-less questions revealed that children are more likely to omit the "wh"-word "was" ("what") than other "wh"-words (e.g. "wo" "where"). In the second study, we performed an acoustic analysis of sixty "wh"-questions that one mother produced during her child's third year of life. The results show that the "wh"-word "was" is much less likely to be accented than the "wh"-word "wo", indicating a relationship between children's omission of "wh"-words and the stress patterns associated with "wh"-questions. The findings are discussed in the light of discourse-pragmatic and metrical accounts of omission errors. (As Provided).
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