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In: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. 289–304

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Chapter 12
Conclusions

 | University of Graz
 | University of Vienna | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Published online: 10 November 2021
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Emergence of derived lexemes and derivational patterns
  • 3.Emergence of neologistic derivations and productivity
  • 4.Other aspects of the development of derivational morphology
    • 4.1Preferences in derivational morphology
    • 4.2Word classes
    • 4.3Semantic categories of early derivations
    • 4.4(Potential) Productivity in CS
    • 4.5Complexity
  • 5.Relations between CDS and CS
  • 6.Summary and outlook
  • References
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