Acquisition of Malayalam Inflections: Complexity of Morphosyntactic Rules and Its Impact on Developing Grammars

Autor/inn/en	Krishnan, Gayathri G.; Raghunathan, Arathi; Sarma, Vaijayanthi M.
Titel	Acquisition of Malayalam Inflections: Complexity of Morphosyntactic Rules and Its Impact on Developing Grammars
Quelle	In: First Language, 43 (2023) 1, S.91-111 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Krishnan, Gayathri G.) ORCID (Raghunathan, Arathi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/01427237221113978
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Grammar; Language Acquisition; Morphemes; Dravidian Languages; Bilingualism; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Infants; Toddlers; Speech Communication; Monolingualism; Error Analysis (Language); Semantics; Vocabulary Development; Longitudinal Studies; Native Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Grammatik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Morphem; Bilingualismus; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Semantik; Wortschatzarbeit; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	In this article, we present an analysis of the complexity of grammatical constraints and their impact on early language acquisition of inflectional morphemes in Malayalam. We use the natural speech production data of two monolingual children acquiring Malayalam between the ages 1;9-2;10 and 2;3-3;0 and three bilingual children acquiring Malayalam-English between the ages 1;9-2;8, 2;0-3;0 and 1;10-2;11 to recover the underlying grammatical constraints that govern the correct productions as well as errors across monolingual and bilingual contexts. We find rules that reference lexico-semantic properties to be particularly challenging to young children. (As Provided).
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