The acquisition of Sesotho nominal agreement
The acquisition of Sesotho nominal agreement
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收购塞索托名义协议
DOI：
10.1007/s11525-011-9192-7
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发表时间：
2012
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Sara Weschler
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作者：
K. Demuth;Sara Weschler
班图语名词类前缀的习得长期以来一直是一个理论上感兴趣的问题，部分原因是由于大量的性别类。相比之下，收购班图的名义协议却很少受到关注。鉴于其他语言的研究结果，人们可能会期望班图语协议的语音透明系统能够尽早轻松掌握。然而，最近的发现，在某些语法条件下，语言允许空前缀提出了学习名词协议可能比原来想象的更具挑战性的可能性。因此，本研究的目的是评估塞索托语的2-3岁儿童的收购作为一个功能的完整和减少名词类前缀的名词协议。虽然孩子们表现出早期的语音规格不足，他们在其他方面表示名义协议没有什么问题，是否产生的名词类前缀。的可学习性的影响，更普遍的词汇表征的发展，进行了讨论。
The acquisition of Bantu noun class prefixes has long been an issue of theoretical interest, due in part to the large number of gender classes. In contrast, the acquisition of Bantu nominal agreement has received little attention. Given findings from other languages, one might expect the phonologically transparent system of Bantu agreement to be mastered early and easily. However, the recent discovery that Sotho languages permit null prefixes under certain grammatical conditions raises the possibility that learning nominal agreement might be more challenging than originally thought. The goal of this study was therefore to assess Sesotho-speaking 2–3-year-olds’ acquisition of nominal agreement as a function of full versus reduced noun class prefixes. Although the children exhibited early phonological underspecification, they otherwise represented nominal agreement with little problem, whether the noun class prefix was produced or not. The implications for learnability, and the development of lexical representations more generally, are discussed.