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The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 66] 2021
► pp. 1–20

Chapter 1
Introduction

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| University of Graz
| University of Southern Denmark
Article outline
  • 1.Aim of the volume
  • 2.Derivational morphology
    • 2.1Delimitations of the domain of derivational morphology
    • 2.2Preferences within derivational morphology
    • 2.3Classification of patterns of derivational morphology
  • 3.Methodology
    • 3.1Longitudinal study of spontaneous speech
    • 3.2Phases of development
      • 3.2.1Generalities
      • 3.2.2Premorphology
      • 3.2.3Protomorphology
      • 3.2.4Core morphology
  • 4.Relations between input and output
  • 5.Linguistic typology
  • 6.Summaries of chapters
  • References
Published online: 10 November 2021
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