The Perfective Past Tense in Greek Child Language

Autor/inn/en	Stavrakaki, Stavroula; Clahsen, Harald
Titel	The Perfective Past Tense in Greek Child Language
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 36 (2009) 1, S.113-142 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000908008866
Schlagwörter	Verbs; Child Language; Native Speakers; Adults; Language Acquisition; Morphemes; Greek; Generalization; Morphology (Languages) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Muttersprachler; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Morphem; Grieche; Griechisch; Morphology; Morphologie
Abstract	This study examines the perfective past tense of Greek in an elicited production and an acceptability judgment task testing 35 adult native speakers and 154 children in six age groups (age range: 3;5 to 8;5) on both existing and novel verb stimuli. We found a striking contrast between sigmatic and non-sigmatic perfective past tense forms. Sigmatic forms (which have a segmentable perfective affix (-s-) in Greek) were widely generalized to different kinds of novel verbs in both children and adults and were overgeneralized to existing non-sigmatic verbs in children's productions. By contrast, non-sigmatic forms were only extended to novel verbs that were similar to existing non-sigmatic verbs, and overapplications of non-sigmatic forms to existing sigmatic verbs were extremely rare. We argue that these findings are consistent with dual-mechanism accounts of morphology. (As Provided).
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