Original scientific paper
Acquisition of verbs in Croatian, French and Austrian German - an outline of a comparative analysis
Maja Anđel
; Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Zagreb
Sabine Klampfer
; Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna
Marianne Kilani-Schoch
; University of Lausanne
Wolfgang U. Dressler
; Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna
Melita Kovačević
; Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Zagreb
Abstract
Research of child language acquisition, i. e. comparisons of acquisition in typologically different
languages, play a significant role in shedding some light on universal linguistic features.
The aim of our paper is to compare acquisition of verbal morphology in three languages
belonging to different branches of IndoEuropean languages and to compare developing verbal
systems in children as well as the order of emergence of verbal forms in each of them.
Furthermore, the results on regularities occurring in all three languages have been discussed.
The analysis of process of developing verbal system within each particular language is
based on tense and mood. Provided error analysis gave us some further insights into the
linguistically active role that child takes at certain stage of its linguistic development. The
intention of this paper is to point to relevant aspects of developing linguistic system common
to all three analysed languages, but at the same time drawing the attention to those
language segments that need to be taken into consideration due to the limitations imposed
by the language variations.
Keywords
language acquisition; verbal morphology; language universals; Croatian; French; Austrian German
Hrčak ID:
22621
URI
Publication date:
30.11.2000.
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