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Direct linkKempe, 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
Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J. – Language Learning, 2005
This study investigated second-language (L2) learning to gain a better understanding of learning mechanisms that also operate in child first-language L1 learners. The research was inspired by research on the beneficial effects of child-directed speech CDS. We tried to examine whether such benefits can be observed in the domain of inflectional…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Russian, English, Nouns
