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Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J.; Mironova, Natalija; Pershukova, Angelina; Fedorova, Olga – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This paper documents the occurrence of form variability through diminutive "wordplay", and examines whether this variability facilitates or hinders morphology acquisition in a richly inflected language. First, in a longitudinal speech corpus of eight Russian mothers conversing with their children (1.6-3.6), and with an adult, the use of diminutive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Nouns, Vocabulary Development, Russian
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Brooks, Patricia J.; Kempe, Vera; Sionov, Ariel – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
To examine effects of input and learner characteristics on morphology acquisition, 60 adult English speakers learned to inflect masculine and feminine Russian nouns in nominative, dative, and genitive cases. By varying training vocabulary size (i.e., type variability), holding constant the number of learning trials, we tested whether learners…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Adults, English