The Development of the Causative Construction in Persian Child Language

Autor/inn/en	Family, Neiloufar; Allen, Shanley E. M.
Titel	The Development of the Causative Construction in Persian Child Language
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 42 (2015) 6, S.1337-1378 (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000915000057
Schlagwörter	Child Language; Language Acquisition; Indo European Languages; Form Classes (Languages); Developmental Stages; Verbs; Young Children; Cluster Grouping; Generalization; Error Patterns; Lexicology; Difficulty Level; Language Patterns; Word Order; Morphology (Languages); Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Monolingualism; Qualitative Research; Morphemes; Foreign Countries; Iran (Tehran) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Indoeuropäisch; Analytischer Sprachbau; Frühe Kindheit; Eingruppierung; Fehlertyp; Lexikologie; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Wortfolge; Morphology; Morphologie; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Qualitative Forschung; Morphem; Ausland
Abstract	The acquisition of systematic patterns and exceptions in different languages can be readily examined using the causative construction. Persian allows four types of causative structures, including one productive multiword structure (i.e. the light verb construction). In this study, we examine the development of all four structures in Persian child speech between the ages of 1;11 and 6;7, in correspondence with their caregivers' speech. We define developmental stages based on dendrograms derived from variability clustering (Gries & Stoll, 2009). These stages are further substantiated by qualitative data, including overgeneralization errors and alternating structures. We find that Persian-speaking children learn to exploit two (i.e. lexical and light verb construction causatives) of the four constructions. They go from relying on lexical causatives to forming progressively constrained templates for the more complex light verb construction. This first study of the development of Persian causatives supports a usage-based account of verb-by-verb learning in child language development. (As Provided).
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