Polish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity

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dc.contributor.authorDabrowska, Eva
dc.contributor.authorSzczerbinski, Marcin
dc.contributor.funderBritish Academy, United Kingdomen
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-21T09:15:32Z
dc.date.available2012-11-21T09:15:32Z
dc.date.issued2006-08
dc.date.updated2012-11-03T12:32:52Z
dc.description.abstract57 Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively. Results show that this ability develops early: the majority of two-year olds were already productive with all inflections apart from dative neuter; and the overall performance of the four-year-olds was very similar to that of adults. All age groups were more productive with inflections that apply to large and/or phonologically diverse classes, although class size and token frequency appeared to be more important for younger children (two- and three-year-olds) and phonological diversity for older children and adults. Regularity, on the other hand, was a very poor predictor of productivity. The results support usage-based models of language acquisition and are problematic for the dual mechanism model.  en
dc.description.sponsorshipBritish Academy, United Kingdom (RB 100556)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationEWA DABROWSKA and MARCIN SZCZERBINSKI (2006). Polish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity. Journal of Child Language, 33, pp 559-597 doi:10.1017/S0305000906007471en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0305000906007471
dc.identifier.endpage597en
dc.identifier.issn0305-0009
dc.identifier.issn1469-7602
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Child Languageen
dc.identifier.startpage559en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/792
dc.identifier.volume33en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.urihttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JCL
dc.rights© 2006 Cambridge University Press
dc.subjectLanguage developmenten
dc.subjectMorphological productivityen
dc.subjectPolish case-making systemen
dc.subject.lcshLanguage acquisitionen
dc.titlePolish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversityen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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