The impact of inflectional awareness on syntactic bootstrapping and fast mapping of novel verbs in English, Filipino, and Chabacano

• Main Author: Concepcion, Claribel C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2003
• Subjects: Semantics; Grammar, Comparative and general—Inflection; Grammar, Comparative and general—Morphology; Language and languages; Chabacano language; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/936; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_doctoral/article/1935/viewcontent/TG03565_F_Partial.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

To utilize morphological cues for syntactic bootstrapping, language learners must recognize that inflectionally varying words are instances of the same word. Children who are exposed to languages with richer inflectional morphologies than English and Chabacano, such as Filipino, experience instances...