32.3984, Books: The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Forshaw

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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:00:03
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Forshaw

 


Title: The Acquisition of Complex Morphology 
Subtitle: Insights from Murrinhpatha 
Series Title: Trends in Language Acquisition Research 30  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tilar.30 


Author: William Forshaw

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258373 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258373 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258373 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210111 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210111 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210111 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the
morphological complexity and diversity of the world’s languages. This book
examines the acquisition of complex morphology of Murrinhpatha, a
polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. It considers semi-naturalistic
data from five children (1;9-6;1) collected over a two-year period. Analysis
of the Murrinhpatha data is focused on the acquisition of polysynthetic verb
constructions, large irregular inflectional paradigms, and bipartite stem
verbs, which all pose interesting challenges to the learner, as well as to
theories of language acquisition. The book argues that morphological
complexity, which broadly includes factors such as transparency,
predictability/regularity, richness, type/token frequency and productivity,
must become central to our understanding of morphological acquisition. It
seeks to understand how acquisition is impacted by differences in
morphological systems and by the ways in which children and their
interlocutors use these systems.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Morphology


Written In: English  (eng)

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