The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology in Children

Fejzo, Anila; Desrochers, Alain; Deacon, S. Hélène

doi:10.4324/9781315229140-5

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“…Similar developmental trajectories have been reported using other explicit tasks (e.g. analogy [ 41 ]) (see [ 42 ] for a review).…”

Section: Morpheme Awarenesssupporting

confidence: 77%

Language and Reading: the Role of Morpheme and Phoneme Awareness

Duncan

2018

Curr Dev Disord Rep

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Purpose of ReviewAlthough spoken language in the form of meta-linguistic awareness is widely regarded as being involved in reading development, the extensive literature based on different experimental tasks, age groups, and languages makes it difficult to establish consensus about the type of awareness that is critical and the mechanisms underlying this relationship. The purpose of this review is to explore the links between reading and two specific aspects of meta-linguistic awareness, namely, phoneme awareness and morpheme awareness.Recent FindingsResearch has uncovered distinct levels of meta-linguistic awareness that stand in different relationships to learning to read. Empirical findings support the reciprocal involvement of an awareness of phonemes and morphemes in reading development but the precise nature of the relationship between spoken and written language is subject to cross-language variation.SummaryA universal model of reading development is needed that is sufficiently flexible to allow interplay in the processing of phonology, orthography, and meaning in response to the linguistic characteristics of the spoken and written forms of the language being acquired. The linguistic characteristics that influence the development of phoneme and morpheme awareness are compared for alphabetic and morphographic orthographies and related to typical and atypical patterns of reading acquisition.

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“…Similar developmental trajectories have been reported using other explicit tasks (e.g. analogy [ 41 ]) (see [ 42 ] for a review).…”

Section: Morpheme Awarenesssupporting

confidence: 77%

Language and Reading: the Role of Morpheme and Phoneme Awareness

Duncan

2018

Curr Dev Disord Rep

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“…In language-majority children, knowledge of inflections and compounds is typically acquired earlier than derivational knowledge (see the review by Kuo & Anderson, 2006). Derivational knowledge develops with schooling and possibly reading experience (Fejzo et al, 2018). However, although language-majority children have extensive early exposure to inflectional suffixes, verb inflection is acquired relatively late.…”

Section: Factors Related To Differences In Morphological Knowledge Be...mentioning

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“…For instance, children’s judgment of whether two words are related ( bake–bakery ) has been found to reach ceiling earlier than children’s performance on tasks that require selecting or producing a derivate word in a sentence completion or analogy task ( love–lovely, current–? ) (e.g., Fejzo et al, 2018; Tyler & Nagy, 1989). Similarly, judgment tasks appear to be mastered earlier than production tasks, supposedly because they tap implicit and explicit knowledge, respectively (e.g., Diamanti et al, 2018).…”

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Morphology—A Gateway to Advanced Language: Meta-Analysis of Morphological Knowledge in Language-Minority Children

Bratlie

Brinchmann

Melby‐Lervåg

et al. 2022

Review of Educational Research

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Knowledge about the smallest meaningful units of language, morphemes, is crucial for vocabulary and reading comprehension. This meta-analysis of 43 studies examined differences in morphological knowledge in the societal language between language-minority and language-majority children. There was a moderate to large mean group difference in morphological knowledge in favor of the language-majority children. Studies that examined inflectional knowledge (walk–walked, rose–roses) reported larger differences than studies that examined knowledge of derivations (coexist, serious) and compounds (bluebird, highlight). Studies that used oral tests and tests of expressive language reported larger differences than studies that used written tests and tests of receptive language. These findings show that morphology is an area of weakness in language-minority children. Paired with the evidence that morphological instruction improves general language ability and reading comprehension, the results suggest that morphology could be an essential component in language interventions for language-minority children.

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“…Researchers have used different tasks to operationalize morphological awareness that have either included inflectional and/or derivational morphology (Deacon et al, 2008; Fejzo et al, 2018; Maynard et al, 2018). Inflectional morphology provides information about time or quantity by attaching suffixes to a word without changing the meaning or class of the word (e.g., cat, cat-s; walk-ing, walk-s, walk-ed).…”

Section: The Development Of Morphological Awarenessmentioning

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The growth trajectories of morphological awareness and its predictors

Inoue

Georgiou

Parrila

2023

Applied Psycholinguistics

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The purpose of this study was to examine the early growth of morphological awareness and its predictors. We followed 172 English-speaking Canadian children (82 girls, 90 boys, Mage = 75.56 months at the first assessment point) from Grade 1 to Grade 3 and assessed them on nonverbal IQ, phonological short-term memory, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and vocabulary at the beginning of Grade 1 and on morphological awareness at the end of Grade 1, beginning and end of Grade 2, and beginning of Grade 3. Results of growth curve modeling showed different growth patterns for Word Analogy and Sentence Analogy. In addition, vocabulary and phonological awareness were associated with the initial status of morphological awareness, and phonological awareness and letter knowledge predicted the growth rate of morphological awareness. These findings suggest that code-related skills drive the development of morphological awareness during the early years of literacy instruction.

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The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology in Children

Cited by 10 publications

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Language and Reading: the Role of Morpheme and Phoneme Awareness

Language and Reading: the Role of Morpheme and Phoneme Awareness

Morphology—A Gateway to Advanced Language: Meta-Analysis of Morphological Knowledge in Language-Minority Children

The growth trajectories of morphological awareness and its predictors

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