Semantics and Morphology of Early Adjectives in First Language Acquisition 1st Edition by Elena Tribushinina, Maria D Voeikova, Sabrina Noccetti ISBN 1443883263 9781443883269

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ISBN 10: 1443883263 
ISBN 13: 9781443883269
Author: Elena Tribushinina, Maria D Voeikova, Sabrina Noccetti

This book is about how toddlers learn their first adjectives, such as, for example, red, big and tasty. Adjectives denote properties and enter child vocabularies later than words for objects (such as apple and tree) and actions (such as eat and run), probably due to lower frequencies in parental speech and greater conceptual complexity. Adjective acquisition has received relatively little attention in child language research. Furthermore, cross-linguistic studies of adjective learning are virtually non-existent. This book represents the first systematic analysis of how children learning typologically different languages acquire adjective form, function and meaning.

The cross-linguistic comparisons undertaken in the book provide valuable insights into universal and language-specific aspects of language acquisition. For each of the languages studied in this volume, the development of adjective semantics is studied in tandem with the development of morphology by testing two hypotheses: (a) the acquisition trajectory in the domain of adjectival morphology is determined by the typological properties of the target language; (b) irrespective of the languages being acquired, adjective learning is facilitated by universal conceptual mechanisms such as comparison and contrast.

Semantics and Morphology of Early Adjectives in First Language Acquisition 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Scope and Goals

2. Theoretical Foundations
2.1 Semantics of Adjectives
2.2 Morphological Considerations
2.3 Language Acquisition Theories

3. Early Adjective Acquisition: Semantic Aspects
3.1 Semantic Categories of Early Adjectives
3.2 Conceptual Development and Adjectives
3.3 Cross-linguistic Perspectives

4. Morphological Development of Adjectives
4.1 Morphological Markers in Early Speech
4.2 Inflection and Derivation
4.3 Morphological Errors and Patterns

5. Interaction Between Semantics and Morphology
5.1 How Meaning Influences Form
5.2 Developmental Sequences
5.3 Case Studies

6. Methodology
6.1 Data Collection
6.2 Analysis Techniques

7. Results
7.1 Semantic Findings
7.2 Morphological Findings
7.3 Correlations and Trends

8. Discussion
8.1 Implications for Language Acquisition
8.2 Comparison with Existing Models
8.3 Limitations

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