"This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Altaic) with different degrees of derivational complexity. Data collection, analysis and systematic comparison between child speech and parental child-directed speech are strictly parallel across the chapters. In order to identify the productivity of a derivational pattern, signalling the crucial developmental stage in its acquisition, the concept of the mini-paradigm criterion was applied. Similar developmental processes can be observed in all children, independent of the language they acquire, but the children's courses of development also show obvious typological differences. This points towards an important impact of the structural properties of the specific language on emergence, use and the early course of development of derivational patterns"--.

• The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1. Aim of the volume
  • 2. Derivational morphology
    • 2.1 The domain of derivational morphology
    • 2.2 Preferences within derivational morphology
    • 2.3 Classification of patterns of derivational morphology
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Longitudinal study of spontaneous speech
    • 3.2 Phases of development
  • 4. Relations between input and output
  • 5. Linguistic typology
  • 6. Summaries of chapters
  • References
• Chapter 2. The development of derivation in early Greek first language acquisition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Derivational devices of Standard Modern Greek
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 The development of derivational prefixes and suffixes in Greek language acquisition
    • 4.2 The usage of derivational prefixes and suffixes in CDS in comparison with CS
  • 5. Summary and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 3. Derivational patterns in spontaneous data of French-speaking parent-child interactions before age three
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. French derivational morphology in the target system
    • 2.1 Noun formation
    • 2.2 Verb formation
    • 2.3 Adjective formation
  • 3. Data and method
    • 3.1 Data
    • 3.2 Method
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Suffixation
    • 4.2 Prefixation
    • 4.3 Conversion
    • 4.4 ADS
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 4. Emergence and early development of derivatives in Danish child language
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Danish derivational morphology
    • 2.1 Root changes
    • 2.2 Derivation versus inflection
    • 2.3 Derivation versus compounding
    • 2.4 Prosody of Danish derivatives
  • 3. Derivational affixes relevant for Danish child speech (CS) and child-directed speech (CDS)
    • 3.1 Noun derivation
    • 3.2 Verb derivation
    • 3.3 Adjective derivation
    • 3.4 Operationalization
  • 4. Hypotheses
  • 5. Data basis
  • 6. Distribution of derivatives in CS and CDS
    • 6.1 Noun derivation
    • 6.2 Verb derivation
    • 6.3 Adjective derivation
  • 7. Discussion
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
• Chapter 5. Early phases of development of German derivational morphology
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. German derivational morphology
    • 2.1 Noun formation
    • 2.2 Verb formation
    • 2.3 Adjective formation
  • 3. Previous research on the acquisition of German derivational morphology
  • 4. Acquisition data and methods
    • 4.1 Data
    • 4.2 Methods
  • 5. Distribution of derivations in CS and CDS
    • 5.1 Noun derivation
    • 5.2 Verb derivation
    • 5.3 Adjective derivation
  • 6. Course of acquisition (nouns and verbs)
  • 7. Emergence and productive use
    • 7.1 Derived nouns
    • 7.2 Derived verbs
    • 7.3 Derived adjectives
  • 8. Frequencies vs. age and order of emergence
  • 9. Rise of complexity
  • 10. Conclusions and outlook
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 6. Derivational morphology in Croatian child language
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Derivation in Croatian
    • 1.2 Derivation in Croatian language acquisition
    • 1.3 Aims of the study
  • 2. Methodology
  • 3. Derivational morphology in CS and CDS
    • 3.1 Suffixation
    • 3.2 Prefixation
  • 4. Frequency and acquisition of derived words in CS
    • 4.1 Frequencies of derived nouns and verbs in CS and CDS
    • 4.2 Frequencies of different derivational types in CS and CDS
    • 4.3 Acquisition: Appearance and development of derived words
    • 4.4 Acquisition: Derivational pairs and mini-paradigms
    • 4.5 Acquisition: Neologisms and neosemantism
  • 5. Discussion
    • 5.1 Derivational patterns in CS and CDS
    • 5.2 Derivation in development – evidence of productivity
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 7. Acquisition of derivational morphology in Russian
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Affixation vs. non-affixation morphology
    • 1.2 State of the art
  • 2. Data
    • 2.1 Nominal derivatives in CS
    • 2.2 Adjective derivatives
    • 2.3 Verb derivatives in CS
  • 3. Early derivational patterns in CS
    • 3.1 Derivational nominal patterns
    • 3.2 Derivational adjective patterns
    • 3.3 Derivational verb patterns
  • 4. Development of derivatives in CS
    • 4.1 Development of nominal derivatives in CS
    • 4.2 Development of adjectival derivatives in CS
    • 4.3 Development of verb derivatives in CS
  • 5. CS vs. CDS
    • 5.1 Input-output relationship in nominal derivation
    • 5.2 Input-output relationship in adjective derivation
    • 5.3 Input-output relationship in verb derivation
  • 6. A brief overview of derivational morphology in the late stages of observation
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 8. The acquisition of the Lithuanian derivational system
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Derivational morphology in Lithuanian
    • 2.1 Noun formation
    • 2.2 Verb formation
    • 2.3 Adjective formation
  • 3. Acquisition data and methodology
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 First occurrence
    • 4.2 Productive usage
    • 4.3 Error analysis
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 9. Acquisition of noun and verb derivation in Estonian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The system of derivation in the Estonian language
  • 3. Data and method
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 General overview of data
    • 4.2 Emergence of the first suffixes
    • 4.3 Further development of derivation: The productive use of first suffixes and the emergence of different formation patterns and suffixes
    • 4.4 The general characteristics of the process of the acquisition of derivation: Rising complexity and word families
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 10. Derivation in Finnish child speech and child-directed speech
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and method
  • 3. The acquisition of derivational categories in Finnish
    • 3.1 Derivational categories of nouns
    • 3.2 Derivational categories of verbs
    • 3.3 Derivational categories of adjectives
  • 4. Derivational morphology acquired at later stages
  • 5. Word class changing vs. maintaining derivations
  • 6. Conclusion
    • 6.1 Research question 1: Which derivational patterns emerge and are acquired first?
    • 6.2 Research question 2: What does the early emergence depend on?
    • 6.3 Research question 3: What is the relation between derivation, compounding and inflection in terms of emergence and productivity?
    • 6.4 Summing up
  • References
• Chapter 11. Noun and verb derivations in early Turkish child and child-directed speech
  • 1. Derivation in Turkish
  • 2. Acquisition of derivation
  • 3. Method
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Emergence of morphology in different paces
    • 4.2 Derivation versus other word-formation options in CDS and CS
    • 4.3 Verb derivations: An overview
    • 4.4 Emergence of verb derivations
    • 4.5 Noun derivations: An overview
    • 4.6 Emergence of noun derivations
    • 4.7 Neologisms
    • 4.8 Agent vs. instrument nouns
  • 5. Discussion and conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 12. Conclusions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Emergence of derived lexemes and derivational patterns
  • 3. Emergence of neologistic derivations and productivity
  • 4. Other aspects of the development of derivational morphology
    • 4.1 Preferences in derivational morphology
    • 4.2 Word classes
    • 4.3 Semantic categories of early derivations
    • 4.4 (Potential) Productivity in CS
    • 4.5 Complexity
  • 5. Relations between CDS and CS
  • 6. Summary and outlook
  • References
• Subject index