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Hsu, Ning; Rispoli, Matthew; Hadley, Pamela A. – Language Learning and Development, 2019
The Mandarin resultative verb compound (RVC; e.g., "tui dao" "push fall" and "pa shang" "climb ascend") encodes complex events composed of an initiating action and resulting activity or state. This study investigated when Mandarin-speaking children acquired this language-specific device. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Verbs, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
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Rispoli, Matthew – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This article investigates the relationship between third person singular present tense agreement morphemes, copula "is" and verb-"s", at 2;00 and 2;03. Language samples from 60 children at 2;00 were analyzed for the productivity of copula "is" as measured by the number of different morphemes preceding "is"…
Descriptors: Grammar, Verbs, Young Children, Vocabulary
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Fitzgerald, Colleen E.; Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: Evidence for tense marking in child-directed speech varies both across languages (Guasti, 2002; Legate & Yang, 2007) and across speakers of a single language (Hadley, Rispoli, Fitzgerald, & Bahnsen, 2011). The purpose of this study was to understand how parent interaction styles and register use overlap with the tense-marking…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Morphemes, Grammar