Young Minds' Quest for Regularity: Evidence from the Turkish Causative

Autor/inn/en	Nakipoglu, Mine; Uzundag, Berna A.; Sarigul, Özge
Titel	Young Minds' Quest for Regularity: Evidence from the Turkish Causative
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 49 (2021) 6, S.1214-1241 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nakipoglu, Mine)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000921000672
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Linguistic Input; Turkish; Verbs; Grammar; Learning Processes; Word Frequency; Correlation; Figurative Language; Morphology (Languages); Morphemes; Comparative Analysis; Linguistic Theory; Preschool Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachbildung; Türkisch; Grammatik; Learning process; Lernprozess; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Korrelation; Morphology; Morphologie; Morphem; Linguistische Theorie; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	Children's remarkable ability to generalize beyond the input and the resulting overregularizations/ irregularizations provide a platform for a discussion of whether morphology learning uses analogy-based, rule-based, or statistical learning procedures. The present study, testing 115 children (aged 3 to 10) on an elicited production task, investigated the acquisition of the irregular distribution in the Turkish causative. Results showed that in early acquisition, to pin down the four causative suffixes, children engaged in comparisons between analogous exemplars. Thereafter to tackle the irregularity in two of the suffixes, children entertained competing hypotheses that yielded overregularizations and irregularizations. Overregularizations were instances of abstraction across the input based on type frequency; irregularizations were attempts to default to erroneous micro-generalizations. Negative correlation between errors and verb frequency suggested that recovery from errors was sensitive to token frequency. The overgeneralize-then-recover pattern that emerged in the acquisition of causative supported an integrated account of the roles of analogy, abstraction, and frequency in morphology learning. (As Provided).
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