Due to high variation and competition of different potential forms, German noun plural formation is known to be challenging for children acquiring German as their first or second language. In order to disentangle linguistic, social and methodological factors, we investigate the acquisition of German noun plurals in 56 kindergarten children living in Vienna (Austria) at four data points from mean ages 3;1 to 4;8. The groups of children were balanced for socio-economic status, language background and gender. We use two different methodologies: (1) a picture-based plural elicitation test in which the plural is formed on the basis of a singular given by the experimenter, (2) spontaneous production data in kindergarten settings. Results demonstr...
Variation in the acquisition of German plural morphology by second language learners. - In: How tole...
The article investigates the use of pronouns to express subjects and objects in early acquisition of...
The paper takes the German noun plural formation as an example for different cases of doubt and show...
Existing studies on plural acquisition in German have relied on small samples and thus hardly delive...
Abstract – Pluralization strategies of monolingual German children aged 3-6, median 4;2 (N = 810), a...
Existing studies on plural acquisition in German have relied on small samples and thus hardly delive...
The acquisition of German plurals has been the focus of controversy in the last decade. In this pape...
The development of plurals in two German-speaking children was analysed, based on observational data...
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Pluralerwerb von simultan-bilingualen Kindern, die in W...
A substantial tradition of linguistic inquiry has framed the knowledge of native speakers in terms o...
The present study investigates word formation processes and strategies in monolingual and bilingual ...
In Afrikaans, plurality is indicated phonetically in several ways. The large number of pluralisation...
Introduction. First language acquisition can shed light on the relevance of language use and frequen...
We examine the success of developmental distributional analysis in English, German and Dutch. We emb...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-76).This study is designed to (1) analyze and chart th...
Variation in the acquisition of German plural morphology by second language learners. - In: How tole...
The article investigates the use of pronouns to express subjects and objects in early acquisition of...
The paper takes the German noun plural formation as an example for different cases of doubt and show...
Existing studies on plural acquisition in German have relied on small samples and thus hardly delive...
Abstract – Pluralization strategies of monolingual German children aged 3-6, median 4;2 (N = 810), a...
Existing studies on plural acquisition in German have relied on small samples and thus hardly delive...
The acquisition of German plurals has been the focus of controversy in the last decade. In this pape...
The development of plurals in two German-speaking children was analysed, based on observational data...
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Pluralerwerb von simultan-bilingualen Kindern, die in W...
A substantial tradition of linguistic inquiry has framed the knowledge of native speakers in terms o...
The present study investigates word formation processes and strategies in monolingual and bilingual ...
In Afrikaans, plurality is indicated phonetically in several ways. The large number of pluralisation...
Introduction. First language acquisition can shed light on the relevance of language use and frequen...
We examine the success of developmental distributional analysis in English, German and Dutch. We emb...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-76).This study is designed to (1) analyze and chart th...
Variation in the acquisition of German plural morphology by second language learners. - In: How tole...
The article investigates the use of pronouns to express subjects and objects in early acquisition of...
The paper takes the German noun plural formation as an example for different cases of doubt and show...