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Sgall, Petr

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“…Typologically, all nine languages are suffixing languages. 3 However, among suffixing languages, they represent a great variety of morphological richness on the scale between the isolating language type (representing minimal morphological richness) and the agglutinating language type (representing maximal morphological richness (see Kilani-Schoch & Dressler, 2005;Sgall, 1999;Skalička, 1979) Because of the prominent role played by nouns and verbs in early development (Bates et al, 1994;Bittner, Dressler, & Kilani-Schoch, 2003;Tomasello & Merriman, 1995;Voeikova & Dressler, 2002), we have restricted our investigation to these two categories. The inflectional categories of nouns and verbs are treated as separate subsystems for typological reasons: a single language can have a rather rich verb inflection but a poor noun inflection (Yucatec Maya, Greek and French are examples of this pattern), or the other way round, although the latter case does not occur in the languages of our sample (for further details see Dressler, 2005;Laaha & Gillis, 2007).…”

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“…Typologically, all nine languages are suffixing languages. 3 However, among suffixing languages, they represent a great variety of morphological richness on the scale between the isolating language type (representing minimal morphological richness) and the agglutinating language type (representing maximal morphological richness (see Kilani-Schoch & Dressler, 2005; Sgall, 1999; Skalička, 1979): French, Dutch and German are weakly inflecting languages (with French showing the most isolating features); Russian, Croatian and Greek are strongly inflecting languages (with Russian showing the most inflecting-fusional features); Turkish, Finnish and Yucatec Maya are agglutinating languages (with Turkish showing the most agglutinating features).…”

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On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

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This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of nine children and their caretakers. The children are aged 1;3–3;0, acquiring nine different languages that vary in terms of morphological richness. The main result is that the degree of morphological richness in child-directed speech is positively related to the speed of development of noun and verb paradigms in child speech.

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“…Typologically, all nine languages are suffixing languages. 3 However, among suffixing languages, they represent a great variety of morphological richness on the scale between the isolating language type (representing minimal morphological richness) and the agglutinating language type (representing maximal morphological richness (see Kilani-Schoch & Dressler, 2005; Sgall, 1999; Skalička, 1979): French, Dutch and German are weakly inflecting languages (with French showing the most isolating features); Russian, Croatian and Greek are strongly inflecting languages (with Russian showing the most inflecting-fusional features); Turkish, Finnish and Yucatec Maya are agglutinating languages (with Turkish showing the most agglutinating features).…”

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“…Economy reflects processing efficiency, by minimizing the number of distinct linguistic forms that must be acquired and retained in use. Thus, the best coding is that which is economically most motivated (DuBois 1985, Sgall 1995.…”

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Relevance and L2 Learners’ Interpretation of Reflexive Anaphora in VP-Ellipsis: An Exploration of the Relationship between Relevance Theory and Typological Universals

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2005

J. Univers. Lang.

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Twenty-eight intermediate and twenty-two advanced L2 learners (the experimental groups) and twenty native speakers of English (the control group) participated in a study that investigated second language learners' interpretation of reflexives in the VP-elliptical sentences. 17 experimental sentences in a null context, 17 experimental sentences followed by a referential context favoring the "strict" reading interpretation, 17 experimental sentences followed by a non-referential context not favoring the "strict" reading interpretation, and 51 filler items were presented to the participants using a judgment task in which each sentence is followed by two alternative interpretations (Frazier & Cliffton, 2000). The results indicate that adult L2 learners' interpretation of such construction in English was constrained by the minimal processing cost and contextual effects of RT. They interpreted the 160 Relevance and L2 Learners' Interpretation of Reflexive Anaphora in∼ reflexive in a null context "sloppily", indicating the constraints of the minimal processing cost of RT. The contextual effects of RT were shown in their "strict" reading of the reflexive in a referential context. The relationship of relevance theory and typological universals in terms of context, constraints, economy and cognitive considerations is also discussed.

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Prague school

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On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

Relevance and L2 Learners’ Interpretation of Reflexive Anaphora in VP-Ellipsis: An Exploration of the Relationship between Relevance Theory and Typological Universals

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