Edited by Minna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman
This book is the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the first language acquisition of four Finno-Ugric languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and North Saami. Ten chapters review research on phonological, lexical, and grammatical development, bringing the research within the… read more
This chapter provides an overview of the acquisition of morphosyntax in Hungarian as a first language. Hungarian presents particular challenges for language development due to its rich, largely agglutinative morphology and pragmatically governed, non-configurational word order. Drawing on data… read more
Hungarian backness harmony shows various degrees of transparency and variation, but the empirical testing of these variability effects in corpora is problematic because of data sparseness. We have created an experiment using harmonically mixed stems and four different harmonic suffixes, and… read more
