In:The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha
William Forshaw
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 30] 2021
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 29 October 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.30.toc
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Table of contents
List of tablesIX
List of figuresXI
AbbreviationsXIII
AcknowledgementsXV
Chapter 1.Setting the scene1
1.1Historical and sociolinguistic context4
1.2Research questions & monograph outline8
Chapter 2.Grammatical background11
2.1Phonology and orthography11
2.2Verbs13
2.2.1Complexity in use16
2.2.2Prosodic structure of verbs17
2.2.3Bipartite stem verbs18
2.2.4Inflectional patterns of classifier stem paradigms25
Chapter 3.Acquisition of verbs and verb morphology29
3.1Crosslinguistic study of language acquisition29
3.2Early verb production30
3.2.1Phonological & prosodic accounts31
3.2.1.1Perceptual salience31
3.2.1.2Prosodic licensing model32
3.2.2Morphosyntactic accounts34
3.2.2.1Perceptual salience & grammar34
3.2.2.2Root infinitives & analogue hypotheses35
3.3Verb lexicon in acquisition36
3.3.1Semantics of early verbs36
3.3.2Verbs and pragmatic development36
3.3.2.1Speech act development37
3.4Acquisition of inflectional morphology39
3.4.1Nativist/generativist approaches40
3.4.2Usage-based approaches42
3.4.3Protomorphology43
3.4.4Morphological complexity45
3.4.5Quantifying morphological development46
3.5Acquisition of bipartite constructions47
Chapter 4.Methodology49
4.1Relationships49
4.2Focus children50
4.3Recording52
4.4Transcription & coding54
Chapter 5.Early verbs57
5.1Structure of bipartite stem verbs57
5.1.1Prosodic licensing account58
5.1.1.1Monosyllabic verbal PWord targets59
5.1.1.2Disyllabic verbal PWord targets (ˈσ σ)59
5.1.1.3Trisyllabic verbal PWord targets (σ ˈσ σ)60
5.1.1.4Tetrasyllabic verbal PWord targets (σ σ ˈσ σ)64
5.1.1.5Developmental stages of verbal PWords70
5.2Semantics & pragmatics of early verbs72
5.3Summary79
Chapter 6.Acquisition of classifier stem paradigms81
6.1Development of CSP cell diversity82
6.2Development of CSP cell diversity in a matched sample86
6.3Errors of commission and the development of diversity94
6.3.1Future precedes non-future95
6.3.2Closely related CSPs98
6.3.3Singular subject person supra-inflection classes101
6.4Discussion104
Chapter 7.Acquisition of bipartite stem verbs107
7.1Analysing contrastive CSP use108
7.2Contrastive CSPs109
7.2.1Semantically opaque contrastive CSPs111
7.2.2Semantically transparent contrastive CSPs112
7.2.2.1‘On’ alternation112
7.2.2.2‘Close’ alternation114
7.2.2.3Reflexive/reciprocal alternations115
7.3Non-standard bipartite stem combinations121
7.3.1Learning ‘to find’121
7.3.2Learning ‘to throw/fish’123
7.4Development of bipartite stem verbs129
Chapter 8.Discussion131
8.1Structure of early verbs131
8.2Semantics & pragmatics of early verbs133
8.3Acquisition of complex verb paradigms134
8.4Acquisition of bipartite stem verbs137
8.5Reflections & future directions138
Appendix: Murrinhpatha classifier stem paradigms141
References155
Index171
