Learning Strategies in Russian Ordinal Acquisition

Autor/inn/en	de Vries, Heleen; Meyer, Caitlin; Peeters-Podgaevskaja, Alla
Titel	Learning Strategies in Russian Ordinal Acquisition
Quelle	In: First Language, 41 (2021) 1, S.90-108 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (de Vries, Heleen) ORCID (Meyer, Caitlin) ORCID (Peeters-Podgaevskaja, Alla)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723720934261
Schlagwörter	Russian; Learning Strategies; Language Acquisition; Monolingualism; Native Language; Preschool Children; Language Processing; Numbers; Vocabulary Development; Morphology (Languages) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Russisch; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sprachverarbeitung; Zahlenraum; Wortschatzarbeit; Morphology; Morphologie
Abstract	This study reports the results of a Give-X task investigating the comprehension of ordinal and cardinal numbers in monolingual Russian-speaking children. Data collected from 36 children between the ages of 4;06 and 5;10 provided evidence that Russian learners follow the well-attested pattern for cardinal acquisition, but that children use a language-specific approach to ordinal acquisition. Lower ordinals elicited more correct responses than higher ordinals, and several cardinal subset-knowers comprehended the irregular lower ordinals vtoroj 'second' and tretij 'third'. This suggests that Russian-speaking children initially learn ordinals lexically, unlike English- and Dutch-speaking children, who have previously been shown to use a rule-based approach. The authors argue that this is explained by the irregularity of the Russian ordinal system, which makes the threshold for rule-learning too high for an initial rule-based approach. Future research should clarify whether lexical learning of ordinals leads to the same underlying knowledge of ordinals as rule-based learning does. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01