In: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 13Discussion and outlook
Published online: 19 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.61.14dre
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.61.14dre
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
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