How 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?
Journal
Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
ISSN: 1525-0008
Titre abrégé: Infancy
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 100890607
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
received:
05
05
2019
revised:
13
01
2020
accepted:
16
01
2020
entrez:
24
4
2020
pubmed:
24
4
2020
medline:
24
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
While phonological development is well-studied in infants, we know less about morphological development. Previous studies suggest that infants around one year of age can process words analytically (i.e., they can decompose complex forms to a word stem and its affixes) in morphologically simpler languages such as English and French. The current study explored whether 15-month-old infants learning Hungarian, a morphologically complex, agglutinative language with vowel harmony, are able to decompose words into a word stem and a suffix. Potential differences between analytical processing of complex forms with back versus front vowels were also studied. The results of Experiment 1 indicate that Hungarian infants process morphologically complex words analytically when they contain a frequent suffix. Analytic processing is present both in the case of complex forms with back and front vowels according to the results of Experiment 2. In light of the results, we argue for the potential relevance of the early development of analytic processing for language development.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32322180
doi: 10.1111/infa.12324
pmc: PMC7161926
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Pagination
190-204Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Infancy published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Congress of Infant Studies.
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