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Acquisition of Inflectional Marking: A Case Study of Finnish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Jussi Niemi  and
Sinikka Niemi
Jussi Niemi
Affiliation:
Department of Phonetics and General Linguistics, University of Joensuu, P.O. Box 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
Sinikka Niemi
Affiliation:
Department of Swedish, University of Joensuu, P.O. Box 111, 80101, Joensuu, Finland.
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Abstract

Longitudinal acquisition studies of inflectional paradigms of Finish have shown, for example, that certain type of stem confusions predominate in the errors during the first few years of language acquisition. The present study focused upon the development of the (possible) base forms in verbs and nominals (i.e. nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns) of Finnish in the speech of the authors' son between ages 1.5 and 5.6. Various factors are discussed that appear to account for most of the errors in a satisfactory manner, e.g., frequency of a related form in caretaker speech, the degree of isomorphy (or transparency) found in the inflection as well as the role of the self-directed speech of the child.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , June 1987 , pp. 59 - 89
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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