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Klammler, Astrid; Schneider, Stefan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
In the present study, the natural and simultaneous first language acquisition of a German-Italian bilingual boy and an Italian monolingual girl from 1;8 to 2;1 are analyzed and compared. The investigation focuses on the rate of acquisition and the size and composition of the productive lexicons. At the end of the observation period, the bilingual…
Descriptors: Nouns, Monolingualism, German, Language Acquisition
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Laaha, Sabine; Ravid, Dorit; Korecky-Kroll, Katharina; Laaha, Gregor; Dressler, Wolfgang U. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
The acquisition of German plurals has been the focus of controversy in the last decade. In this paper we claim that degree of productivity (i.e. the capacity of nouns to form potential plurals) plays a key role in determining pace of acquisition. A plural elicitation task was administered to 84 Viennese German-speaking children aged 2;6 to 6;0.…
Descriptors: Nouns, German, Language Acquisition, Child Language