The acquisition of compositional definiteness in Norwegian

Anderssen, Merete

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“…Since frequency is an important factor in acquisition, it is crucial for our research that we have an indication of what the input to children is like. We havetherefore carried out a simple frequency investigation in a corpus of child language recorded in Tromsø (Anderssen 2006). The corpus consists of altogether 70 recordings of three children (age approximately 1;8 to 3;3) in conversations with their parents and the investigators, altogether eight adults.…”

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“…Table 2 shows the frequency of the three indefinite articles for the following adults: The mother (MOT) in the Ann corpus, the investigator and the mother (INV, MOT) in the Ina corpus, and the father, mother and investigator (FAT, MOT, INV) Table 2. The frequency of the three indefinite articles in adult data from the Tromsø acquisition corpus (Anderssen 2006). Table 2 show that the frequency counts from the dictionary only partly hold up when we consider typical child-directed speech.…”

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Grammatical Gender in Norwegian: Language Acquisition and Language Change

Rodina

Westergaard

2015

J Ger Ling

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2Based on data from two experimental studies, this paper investigates the production of gender in a Norwegian dialect (Tromsø) by several groups of child and adult speakers. The findings show that gender is late acquired (around age 7) and furthermore, that there is a considerable difference between the groups, indicating an ongoing historical change involving the loss of feminine gender agreement. However, the feminine declensional endings are retained, e.g., the suffixal definite article. While there are sociolinguistic factors causing this change, we argue that the nature of the change can be explained by the process of language acquisition.

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Grammatical Gender in Norwegian: Language Acquisition and Language Change

Rodina

Westergaard

2015

J Ger Ling

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“…Introducing the data The Norwegian child data studied in Westergaard (2003) are taken from a corpus collected in Tromsø (Anderssen, 2006) (see Table 1). …”

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Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: the acquisition of word order inwh-questions in English and Norwegian

Westergaard

2009

J. Child Lang.

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A B S T R A C TThis paper discusses different approaches to language acquisition in relation to children's acquisition of word order in wh-questions in English and Norwegian. While generative models assert that children set major word order parameters and thus acquire a rule of subject-auxiliary inversion or generalized verb second (V2) at an early stage, some constructivist work argues that English-speaking children are simply reproducing frequent wh-word+auxiliary combinations in the input. The paper questions both approaches, re-evaluates some previous work, and provides some further data, concluding that the acquisition of wh-questions must be the result of a rule-based process. Based on variation in adult grammars, a cue-based model to language acquisition is presented, according to which children are sensitive to minor cues in the input, called micro-cues. V2 is not considered to be one major parameter, but several smaller-scale cues, which are responsible for children's lack of syntactic (over-)generalization in the acquisition process. I N T R O D U C T I O NChildren's acquisition of word order in non-subject wh-questions in English has been studied extensively, and in Ambridge, Rowland, Theakston & Tomasello (2006) this is described as a topic which 'represents an ideal '' test case'' for both movement-based generativist accounts and competing constructivist accounts of language acquisition' (p. 520). The present paper takes a fresh look at some child data on word order in wh-questions in English and a dialect of Norwegian, at the same time comparing a generative and a constructivist approach.

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“…Westergaard (2009) investigated word order in this type of clause in Norwegian spoken language. Her data comes from four adult speakers in the Anderssen corpus of Northern Norwegian child language (Anderssen 2006) and the NoTa corpus (166 adults speaking the Oslo dialect). In this material, Westergaard found that the non-V2…”

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Verb placement in clauses with initial adverbial maybe

Bentzen

2017

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The acquisition of compositional definiteness in Norwegian

Cited by 49 publications

References 11 publications

Grammatical Gender in Norwegian: Language Acquisition and Language Change

Grammatical Gender in Norwegian: Language Acquisition and Language Change

Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: the acquisition of word order inwh-questions in English and Norwegian

Verb placement in clauses with initial adverbial maybe

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