Early verb production in Nungon
This brief research report presents a comparison of the early verb productions of four children acquiring the Papuan language Nungon as a first language. A previous case study examined only verb productions of the child TO; these are now compared with those from three other children, studied from ag...
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| description | This brief research report presents a comparison of the early verb productions of four children acquiring the Papuan language Nungon as a first language. A previous case study examined only verb productions of the child TO; these are now compared with those from three other children, studied from ages 1;1–2;7 (non-dense corpus; one child, AB) and ages 2;4–2;7 (dense corpora; two children, MK and MF). Two of the most striking features of TO’s early verb productions are shown to be outliers relative to the other three children: her ‘root nominals’ stage and her delayed near future tense production. Neither of these is transparently linked to patterns in her parents’ child-directed speech. The other children also display differing strategies into language production. The dense corpus is beneficial for catching tokens of less-frequent inflections, but the frequent long recording sessions may be difficult for at least one child to tolerate. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4be80b849c304ce298c00a8e6c74359e2023-08-31T19:52:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-08-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.12414471241447Early verb production in NungonHannah S. SarvasyThis brief research report presents a comparison of the early verb productions of four children acquiring the Papuan language Nungon as a first language. A previous case study examined only verb productions of the child TO; these are now compared with those from three other children, studied from ages 1;1–2;7 (non-dense corpus; one child, AB) and ages 2;4–2;7 (dense corpora; two children, MK and MF). Two of the most striking features of TO’s early verb productions are shown to be outliers relative to the other three children: her ‘root nominals’ stage and her delayed near future tense production. Neither of these is transparently linked to patterns in her parents’ child-directed speech. The other children also display differing strategies into language production. The dense corpus is beneficial for catching tokens of less-frequent inflections, but the frequent long recording sessions may be difficult for at least one child to tolerate.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1241447/fullchild language acquisitionPapuanNungonverbproductioninflection |
| spellingShingle | Hannah S. Sarvasy Early verb production in Nungon Frontiers in Psychology child language acquisition Papuan Nungon verb production inflection |
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| topic | child language acquisition Papuan Nungon verb production inflection |
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