Acquiring Polish Noun Inflection: Two Children's Productivity and Error Patterns in Relation to Parental Input

Autor/inn/en	Price-Williams, David; Davies, Matt
Titel	Acquiring Polish Noun Inflection: Two Children's Productivity and Error Patterns in Relation to Parental Input
Quelle	In: First Language, 43 (2023) 1, S.112-134 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Price-Williams, David)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/01427237221123695
Schlagwörter	Polish; Nouns; Language Acquisition; Speech Communication; Linguistic Input; Parent Child Relationship; Sibling Relationship; Morphology (Languages); English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Preschool Children; Morphemes; Fathers; Language Usage; Constructivism (Learning); Error Patterns; Comparative Analysis; Grammar; Ambiguity (Semantics); Linguistic Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Polnisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachbildung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Morphology; Morphologie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Morphem; Sprachgebrauch; Fehlertyp; Grammatik; Linguistische Theorie
Abstract	Complex systems of inflectional morphology provide a useful testing ground for input-based language acquisition theories. Two analyses were performed on a high-density (12%) naturalistic sample of two Polish-English children's (2;0 and 3;11) and their parents' use of Polish noun inflection: first, each child's use of inflectional affixes and their lexical restrictedness was compared with their father's equalised sample. Second, the children's spontaneous case-marking errors were analysed in context and measured against type and token frequencies in both parents' data and the child-directed speech (CDS) corpus. Findings in both analyses accord with constructivist theory: near adult-like knowledge of Polish inflections hiding a range of use that is more lexically restricted than in their caregivers' speech; low error rates hiding much higher 'pockets of ignorance' for specific inflectional contexts; and patterns of error that correspond closely to token/type frequencies in the CDS, though with the older sibling making some errors that were not frequency-based. Potential effects of syncretism, case ambiguity and semantics are also discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01