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Direct linkPye, Clifton; Berthiaume, Scott; Pfeiler, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The study used naturalistic data on the production of nominal prefixes in the Otopamean language Northern Pame (autonym: Xi'iuy) to test Whole Word (constructivist) and Minimal Word (prosodic) theories for the acquisition of inflection. Whole Word theories assume that children store words in their entirety; Minimal Word theories assume that…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Linguistic Theory, Suprasegmentals
Pye, Clifton; Pfeiler, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2014
This article demonstrates how the Comparative Method can be applied to cross-linguistic research on language acquisition. The Comparative Method provides a systematic procedure for organizing and interpreting acquisition data from different languages. The Comparative Method controls for cross-linguistic differences at all levels of the grammar and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Research Methodology
