Klaus Laalo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Klaus Laalo is involved.
2021 Chapter 10. Derivation in Finnish child speech and child-directed speech The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective, Mattes, Veronika, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 237–262 | Chapter
This chapter examines the early phases of the acquisition of Finnish derivational morphology: what kind of derivational types are used in early child speech and child-directed speech? Which types emerge first and why these types? The analysis is based on recorded and transcribed material of two… read more
2020 Linguistic recycling in language acquisition: Child-directed speech and child speech in the study of language acquisition Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings, Haapanen, Lauri and Daniel Perrin (eds.), pp. 86–103 | Article
The paper examines how children quote their parents’ utterances. In other words, it investigates linguistic recycling as an aspect of language learning and how the child-directed speech (CDS) of adults influences child speech (CS). This topic is examined especially in the light of research made… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Acquisition of compound nouns in Finnish Nominal Compound Acquisition, Dressler, Wolfgang U., F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch (eds.), pp. 191–207 | Chapter
This study first presents a general overview of compounding in Finnish and analyzes the compounds in child speech and child-directed speech in the recordings of two Finnish-speaking children from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. The development of compound production is compared with… read more
2007 10. Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child speech The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 263–278 | Chapter
There are various means to form diminutives in Finnish, for example regular suffixation (e.g. isä ‘father’ + i > isi ‘daddy’) and modification of the stem possibly combined with suffixation (e.g. kissa ‘cat’ > kisu ‘pussycat’, maha ‘stomach’ > masu ‘tummy’). The article first deals with the… read more