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Nominal Compound Acquisition
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 61] 2017
► pp. 287–305

Chapter 13
Discussion and outlook

| | University of Vienna
| | Istanbul Bilgi University
| | University of Lausanne
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Emergence of compounds and compounding patterns
  • 3.Emergence of neologistic compounds
  • 4.Typological characteristics of the languages concerned
  • 5.Lexical typology and wealth of compounding
  • 6.Development of subtypes of compounds
    • 6.1Word classes of compound constituents
    • 6.2Morphotactic transparency
    • 6.3Rise of complexity
  • 7.Relations between CDS and CS
    • 7.1Errors
    • 7.2To what extent does CS follow CDS?
    • 8.Theoretical and methodological consequences for acquisition studies
    • 9.Theoretical consequences for the study of compounds in general
  • 10.Outlook
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2017
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