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Stem overgeneralizations in the acquisition of Croatian verbal morphology: Evidence from parental questionnaires
Word Structure
Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. ... more Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. The Croatian conjugational system exhibits varying degrees of complexity, and this complexity is not primarily based on the number of inflectional morphemes, but on an elaborate system of stem changes. During early language development, children face the difficult task of acquiring this system, using overgeneralized forms to overcome its complexity. To date, studies have used a corpus-based method to retrieve overgeneralizations in child language, which has had limited success in capturing this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to investigate the production of overgeneralized verb forms in Croatian monolingual children aged 2;6 to 5;11 using a questionnaire in which parents report overgeneralizations used by their children. We tested the relationship between the production of overgeneralized forms and features of the input language (token frequency and class size). We hypothesized th...
Stem overgeneralizations in the acquisition of Croatian verbal morphology: Evidence from parental questionnaires
Word Structure, 2023
Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. ... more Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. The Croatian conjugational system exhibits varying degrees of complexity, and this complexity is not primarily based on the number of inflectional morphemes, but on an elaborate system of stem changes. During early language development, children face the difficult task of acquiring this system, using overgeneralized forms to overcome its complexity. To date, studies have used a corpus-based method to retrieve overgeneralizations in child language, which has had limited success in capturing this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to investigate the production of overgeneralized verb forms in Croatian monolingual children aged 2;6 to 5;11 using a questionnaire in which parents report overgeneralizations used by their children. We tested the relationship between the production of overgeneralized forms and features of the input language (token frequency and class size). We hypothesized that the rate of overgeneralizations will depend on input language features, i.e. a higher rate of overgeneralizations for infrequent verbs and for verbs with smaller class size. The items selected for the questionnaire are the verbs with stem change used by parents in the longitudinal Croatian corpus of child language. Parents report overgeneralized forms in all verb classes, and verb frequency and class size negatively correlate with the proportion of overgeneralizations. Our results show that children gradually abstract morphological systems in a way that is highly sensitive to the properties of the input.
Les études françaises aujourd’hui , 2024
pour exprimer le même sens grammatical. Depuis peu, ce phénomène a suscité un grand intérêt dans ... more pour exprimer le même sens grammatical. Depuis peu, ce phénomène a suscité un grand intérêt dans la recherche linguistique, notamment dans les langues qui étaient moins investiguées. Dans cet article, on examine de plus près la surabondance morphologique en croate, en mettant l'accent sur les raisons possibles de cette variation et ses implications pour la description grammaticale du croate mais aussi d'autres langues proches. On présente la Base de données des doublets croates qui peut servir comme un outil bienvenu pour une connaissance plus approfondie de ce phénomène. Mots clés : surabondance morphologique, Base de données doublets, flexion, langue croate.
Cognitive Linguistics, 2024
Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquis... more Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquisition. In this article, the role of the two processes, operationalised by token and type frequency, in the production of overgeneralised verb forms in Croatian preschool children is investigated using a parental questionnaire and computational simulation of language acquisition. The participants of the questionnaire were parents of children aged 3;0-5;11 years (n = 174). The results showed that parents of most children (93 %) reported the parallel use of both adultlike and overgeneralised verb forms, suggesting that Croatian-speaking preschool children have not yet fully acquired the verbal system. The likelihood of overgeneralised forms being reported decreases with the age of the children and verb type frequency. The results of the computational simulation show that patterns with a higher type frequency also show a greater preference for the correct form, while lexical items show both learning and unlearning tendencies during the process.
Fluminensia, 2024
Rad prikazuje širenje preobilja (dubletnosti) u genitivu množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidb... more Rad prikazuje širenje preobilja (dubletnosti) u genitivu množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidbe s višesuglasničkim završetkom osnove u hrvatskom jeziku. Te se imenice u genitivu množine pojavljuju u dvama ili trima oblicima (žalba: žalbā/žalbī, pogreška: pogrešākā/pogreškā/pogreškī). Ukratko se opisuje pojava nastavka -ā i epenteza koja ga prati te naknadni nestanak epenteze. Najveći je dio rada posvećen postanku i širenju novoga nastavka -ī. Pokazuje se da je u ranim fazama razvitka standardnoga jezika (18. i 19. st.) taj nastavak već raširen, ali samo u sjevernom dijelu novoštokavskoga teritorija. U južnim je govorima odsutan i takvo se stanje održalo praktički do danas. Razmatra se dominacija nastavka -ī u suvremenom jeziku te se uzroci za to stanje dijelom pronalaze i u raširenosti takva nastavka u kajkavskom narječju.
Rasprave, 2024
Rad prikazuje opis genitiva množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidbe s višesuglasničkim završetk... more Rad prikazuje opis genitiva množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidbe s višesuglasničkim završetkom osnove u hrvatskim gramatikama i pojedinim studijama. Te se imenice u genitivu množine pojavljuju u dvama ili trima oblicima (npr. žalba: žalbā/žalbī, pogreška: pogrešākā/pogreškā/pogreškī). Provjerava se dosljednost i upotrebljivost opisa i pravila za distribuciju nastavaka koji se u priručnicima donose te se utvrđuje njihova složenost i neujednačenost. Ujedno se prati pristup morfološkoj dubletnosti, odnosno preobilju u ovoj kategoriji od devetnaestostoljetnih hrvatskih gramatika do najnovijih radova te se pokazuje da odnos prema mogućim nastavcima nije jednak u svim gramatikama. Za nastavak -ā karakteristično je da dulji i zadnji samoglasnik osnove, što pak nije slučaj kod -ī. Tako će od mòlba biti mólbā, ali mòlbī. U imenica s umetanjem taj je suglasnik uvijek umetnuto a, zato i jest oblik príredābā. Umetanja ovdje nema zato što se iz perspektive fonotaktike hrvatskoga jezika navedeni skupovi ponašaju kao jednostavni sliveni suglasnici, a ne pravi suglasnički skupovi (Marković 2013: 79).
JCL, 2025
Children's acquisition of variation in the target language depends on a number of factors not yet... more Children's acquisition of variation in the target language depends on a number of factors not yet well understood. This study probes the acquisition of morphological variation in two unrelated languages, Croatian (Slavic) and Estonian (Finnic), focussing on parallel forms of a lexeme expressing a single grammatical category (a phenomenon known as morphological overabundance). We conducted a cross-linguistic elicitation experiment with 140 monolingual, typically developing children aged 3;0 to 6;11 (80 learning Croatian, 60 Estonian). We elicited genitive plural forms in Croatian and partitive plural in Estonian, with lexemes which either are invariant or allow more than one form. Children in both languages were less accurate with lexemes with parallel forms, indicating that the morphological variation hindered acquisition. Pattern type frequency was found to affect accuracy in both languages. Children's choice between two parallel forms was unaffected by age, but significant language-specific differences emerged.
Jezik : Periodical for the Culture of the Standard Croatian Language, Dec 1, 2008
O tati i varalici s gledišta hrvatskoga kao inojezičnoga
Acquisition of information structure in Croatian- and French speaking children aged 4 and 6: Focus on reformulation procedures
L’acquisition de la langue maternelle : une entreprise à la fois syntaxique et sémantique – Perspective comparative : croate, français
Les procédures de reformulation en croate
Acquisition de la complexité en croate
Morphosemantic features of the third verb type (je-verbs) in Croatian
Generalizations in verb paradigms in Croatian typically developing children and a child with developmental language disorder
Hrvatski jezik : znanstveno-popularni časopis za kulturu hrvatskoga jezika, Jun 24, 2016
Description du protocole expérimental
Reformulation et acquisition de la complexité linguistique. Perspective interlangue, 2018
Hrvatsko zrakoplovno nazivlje
Prédication principale vs seconde à l'épreuve des faits d'acquisition en allemand, croate et français, langues maternelles
Stem overgeneralizations in the acquisition of Croatian verbal morphology: Evidence from parental questionnaires
Word Structure
Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. ... more Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. The Croatian conjugational system exhibits varying degrees of complexity, and this complexity is not primarily based on the number of inflectional morphemes, but on an elaborate system of stem changes. During early language development, children face the difficult task of acquiring this system, using overgeneralized forms to overcome its complexity. To date, studies have used a corpus-based method to retrieve overgeneralizations in child language, which has had limited success in capturing this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to investigate the production of overgeneralized verb forms in Croatian monolingual children aged 2;6 to 5;11 using a questionnaire in which parents report overgeneralizations used by their children. We tested the relationship between the production of overgeneralized forms and features of the input language (token frequency and class size). We hypothesized th...
Stem overgeneralizations in the acquisition of Croatian verbal morphology: Evidence from parental questionnaires
Word Structure, 2023
Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. ... more Studies on verbal overgeneralization often focus on languages with low morphological complexity. The Croatian conjugational system exhibits varying degrees of complexity, and this complexity is not primarily based on the number of inflectional morphemes, but on an elaborate system of stem changes. During early language development, children face the difficult task of acquiring this system, using overgeneralized forms to overcome its complexity. To date, studies have used a corpus-based method to retrieve overgeneralizations in child language, which has had limited success in capturing this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to investigate the production of overgeneralized verb forms in Croatian monolingual children aged 2;6 to 5;11 using a questionnaire in which parents report overgeneralizations used by their children. We tested the relationship between the production of overgeneralized forms and features of the input language (token frequency and class size). We hypothesized that the rate of overgeneralizations will depend on input language features, i.e. a higher rate of overgeneralizations for infrequent verbs and for verbs with smaller class size. The items selected for the questionnaire are the verbs with stem change used by parents in the longitudinal Croatian corpus of child language. Parents report overgeneralized forms in all verb classes, and verb frequency and class size negatively correlate with the proportion of overgeneralizations. Our results show that children gradually abstract morphological systems in a way that is highly sensitive to the properties of the input.
Les études françaises aujourd’hui , 2024
pour exprimer le même sens grammatical. Depuis peu, ce phénomène a suscité un grand intérêt dans ... more pour exprimer le même sens grammatical. Depuis peu, ce phénomène a suscité un grand intérêt dans la recherche linguistique, notamment dans les langues qui étaient moins investiguées. Dans cet article, on examine de plus près la surabondance morphologique en croate, en mettant l'accent sur les raisons possibles de cette variation et ses implications pour la description grammaticale du croate mais aussi d'autres langues proches. On présente la Base de données des doublets croates qui peut servir comme un outil bienvenu pour une connaissance plus approfondie de ce phénomène. Mots clés : surabondance morphologique, Base de données doublets, flexion, langue croate.
Cognitive Linguistics, 2024
Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquis... more Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquisition. In this article, the role of the two processes, operationalised by token and type frequency, in the production of overgeneralised verb forms in Croatian preschool children is investigated using a parental questionnaire and computational simulation of language acquisition. The participants of the questionnaire were parents of children aged 3;0-5;11 years (n = 174). The results showed that parents of most children (93 %) reported the parallel use of both adultlike and overgeneralised verb forms, suggesting that Croatian-speaking preschool children have not yet fully acquired the verbal system. The likelihood of overgeneralised forms being reported decreases with the age of the children and verb type frequency. The results of the computational simulation show that patterns with a higher type frequency also show a greater preference for the correct form, while lexical items show both learning and unlearning tendencies during the process.
Fluminensia, 2024
Rad prikazuje širenje preobilja (dubletnosti) u genitivu množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidb... more Rad prikazuje širenje preobilja (dubletnosti) u genitivu množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidbe s višesuglasničkim završetkom osnove u hrvatskom jeziku. Te se imenice u genitivu množine pojavljuju u dvama ili trima oblicima (žalba: žalbā/žalbī, pogreška: pogrešākā/pogreškā/pogreškī). Ukratko se opisuje pojava nastavka -ā i epenteza koja ga prati te naknadni nestanak epenteze. Najveći je dio rada posvećen postanku i širenju novoga nastavka -ī. Pokazuje se da je u ranim fazama razvitka standardnoga jezika (18. i 19. st.) taj nastavak već raširen, ali samo u sjevernom dijelu novoštokavskoga teritorija. U južnim je govorima odsutan i takvo se stanje održalo praktički do danas. Razmatra se dominacija nastavka -ī u suvremenom jeziku te se uzroci za to stanje dijelom pronalaze i u raširenosti takva nastavka u kajkavskom narječju.
Rasprave, 2024
Rad prikazuje opis genitiva množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidbe s višesuglasničkim završetk... more Rad prikazuje opis genitiva množine imenica ženskoga roda e-sklonidbe s višesuglasničkim završetkom osnove u hrvatskim gramatikama i pojedinim studijama. Te se imenice u genitivu množine pojavljuju u dvama ili trima oblicima (npr. žalba: žalbā/žalbī, pogreška: pogrešākā/pogreškā/pogreškī). Provjerava se dosljednost i upotrebljivost opisa i pravila za distribuciju nastavaka koji se u priručnicima donose te se utvrđuje njihova složenost i neujednačenost. Ujedno se prati pristup morfološkoj dubletnosti, odnosno preobilju u ovoj kategoriji od devetnaestostoljetnih hrvatskih gramatika do najnovijih radova te se pokazuje da odnos prema mogućim nastavcima nije jednak u svim gramatikama. Za nastavak -ā karakteristično je da dulji i zadnji samoglasnik osnove, što pak nije slučaj kod -ī. Tako će od mòlba biti mólbā, ali mòlbī. U imenica s umetanjem taj je suglasnik uvijek umetnuto a, zato i jest oblik príredābā. Umetanja ovdje nema zato što se iz perspektive fonotaktike hrvatskoga jezika navedeni skupovi ponašaju kao jednostavni sliveni suglasnici, a ne pravi suglasnički skupovi (Marković 2013: 79).
JCL, 2025
Children's acquisition of variation in the target language depends on a number of factors not yet... more Children's acquisition of variation in the target language depends on a number of factors not yet well understood. This study probes the acquisition of morphological variation in two unrelated languages, Croatian (Slavic) and Estonian (Finnic), focussing on parallel forms of a lexeme expressing a single grammatical category (a phenomenon known as morphological overabundance). We conducted a cross-linguistic elicitation experiment with 140 monolingual, typically developing children aged 3;0 to 6;11 (80 learning Croatian, 60 Estonian). We elicited genitive plural forms in Croatian and partitive plural in Estonian, with lexemes which either are invariant or allow more than one form. Children in both languages were less accurate with lexemes with parallel forms, indicating that the morphological variation hindered acquisition. Pattern type frequency was found to affect accuracy in both languages. Children's choice between two parallel forms was unaffected by age, but significant language-specific differences emerged.
Jezik : Periodical for the Culture of the Standard Croatian Language, Dec 1, 2008
O tati i varalici s gledišta hrvatskoga kao inojezičnoga
Acquisition of information structure in Croatian- and French speaking children aged 4 and 6: Focus on reformulation procedures
L’acquisition de la langue maternelle : une entreprise à la fois syntaxique et sémantique – Perspective comparative : croate, français
Les procédures de reformulation en croate
Acquisition de la complexité en croate
Morphosemantic features of the third verb type (je-verbs) in Croatian
Generalizations in verb paradigms in Croatian typically developing children and a child with developmental language disorder
Hrvatski jezik : znanstveno-popularni časopis za kulturu hrvatskoga jezika, Jun 24, 2016
Description du protocole expérimental
Reformulation et acquisition de la complexité linguistique. Perspective interlangue, 2018
Hrvatsko zrakoplovno nazivlje
Prédication principale vs seconde à l'épreuve des faits d'acquisition en allemand, croate et français, langues maternelles