Chapter 3
Derivational patterns in spontaneous data of French-speaking parent-child
interactions before age three
This chapter is a first step towards the characterisation
of the morphological structure of the French lexicon in early first language
acquisition, i.e. before children coin novel word formations. Focusing on
nouns and verbs, it analyses the variety of derivational means used by
toddlers and caregivers in two corpora of French-speaking children
(1;4/1;6–2;11). A comparison is done with a sample of adult-directed (ADS)
speech. Findings on derivation are compared with previous observations on
compounds in the same data. The results display the development of
tight-knit morphological relationships within the lexicon and a clear
prevalence of suffixation over other derivational means and compounding.
Along with errors in affixed words, these relationships provide cues of
early detection of derivational morphology in child speech.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.French derivational morphology in the target system
- 2.1Noun formation
- 2.2Verb formation
- 2.3Adjective formation
- 3.Data and method
- 4.Results
- 4.1Suffixation
- 4.1.1Nominal suffixes
- 4.1.2Adjectival suffixes
- 4.1.3Errors
- 4.1.4Development of semantic categories
- 4.2Prefixation
- 4.3Conversion
- 4.3.1N-V pairs
- 4.3.1.1Homophonous N-V pairs
- 4.3.1.2N-V pairs with modification
- 4.3.2Verbs derived from adjectives
- 4.3.3Adjectives converted from verbs (PP, PPres, sg. pres.
ind.)/deverbal adjectives
- 4.4ADS
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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