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Nominal compound acquisition

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Intro -- Nominal Compound Acquisition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Compounding -- 1.1 Aim of the volume -- 1.2 Compounding preferences -- 1.3 Compounding vs. phrasal syntax -- 1.4 Classification of compounds -- 2. Methodology and theoretical approach -- 2.1 Longitudinal study of spontaneous speech -- 2.2 Distinctions between phases -- 2.2.1 Premorphology -- 2.2.2 Protomorphology -- 2.2.3 Core morphology -- 3. Relations between input and output -- 4. Linguistic typology -- 5. Summaries of chapters -- References -- 1. Emergence and early development of German compounds -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nominal compounding in adult Austrian German -- 3. A brief history of research -- 4. Acquisition data -- 5. Amalgams -- 6. Phrases vs. compounds? -- 7. Emergence of compounding -- 8. Order of emergence of compounds with and without interfixes -- 9. A blind alley development -- 10. Productivity and emergence of compound patterns -- 11. The impact of transparency -- 12. Recursivity -- 13. Discussion and outlook -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2. Compound nouns in Danish child language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Compounding in Danish -- 3. Compound nouns in Danish -- 3.1 Endocentric compounds -- 3.2 Exocentric compounds -- 3.3 Coordinative compounds -- 3.4 Morphosemantically opaque compounds -- 4. Data and method -- 5. Results: Compound nouns in Danish CS and CDS -- 6. Summary and further analyses -- 6.1 The first compound contrasts -- 6.2 Morphosemantically opaque compounds -- 6.3 Swapped elements -- 6.4 As substitute for a conventional word -- 6.5 Innovative compound nouns (neologisms) -- 7. CDS versus CS -- 8. Lexical typology -- 9. Concluding remarks -- References -- 3. Acquisition of nominal compounds in Russian -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Russian compounding: Main characteristics
1.1.1 Formation and usage -- 1.1.2 Semantics, structure and accentual features of compounds -- 1.1.3 Compound 'candidates' for early emergence in adult - child conversation -- 2. The data and method -- 3. Early development of compounds in Russian CS -- 3.1 Emergence of the earliest compounds -- 3.2 Development of compounding -- 3.3 Simplicity and transparency in compound acquisition -- 3.4 Individual features of compound repertoire in CS -- 3.5 Productive use of compounds -- 3.6. Productivity and frequency in compound acquisition -- 3.6.1 Influence of target-language -- 3.6.2 Influence of 'compound input': Quantitative analysis -- 4. Lexical typology -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. Early development of compounds in two French children's corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. French compounding -- 3. The data -- 4. Method of analysis -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Emergence of compounding: overall picture -- 5.2 Strict compounds -- 5.3 Multilexical units -- 5.4 Errors -- 6. Lexical typology -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. Compounding in early Greek language acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Compounding in Standard Modern Greek -- 3. Data -- 4. Compounding in early Greek child speech and child-directed speech -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6. The early production of compounds inLithuanian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structure of Lithuanian noun compounds -- 3. The data -- 4. The study -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 7. Acquisition of noun compounds in Estonian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of noun compounds in Estonian -- 3. Development of noun compounds in Estonian -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Emergence of the first compounds -- 3.3 Emergence of longer compounds -- 3.4 Structure and productive patterns of compound nouns used by Estonian children
3.5 Productive usage of compounds -- 3.6 Morphosemantic transparency of compounds -- 3.7 Frequency effects (input vs. output) -- 4. Lexical typology -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 8. Acquisition of compound nouns in Finnish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Compounding in Finnish -- 2.1 N+N compounds -- 2.2 Other types of noun compounds -- 3. Types of compounds and their frequencies in Finnish CS and CDS -- 4. Compound neologisms in child language -- 5. Lexical typology -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Anchor 61 -- 9 . The acquisition of compound nouns in North Saami -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of nominal compounds in Saami -- 3. The data -- 4. The emergence and early development of compounds in Saami child language -- 4.1 The emergence of compounds -- 4.2 Lexical typology -- 4.3 The non-heads -- 4.4 Contrastive forms of compounds -- 4.5 Recursivity -- 4.6 Neologisms -- 4.7 Semantic transparency of the non-head and head -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Anchor 88 -- References -- 10. The emergence of nominal compounds in Turkish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Compounds in Turkish child-directed speech -- 2.1 Bare compounds (NN and adjN) -- 2.2 Possessive compounds (NN-poss) -- 2.3 Other compounds -- 2.4 Exclusions -- 2.5 Frequency of compounds -- 3. Subject and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Proportion of compounds -- 4.2 Emergence of compounds -- 4.2.1 Premorphology period: Bare NN compounds -- 4.2.2 The protomorphology period: NN-poss compounds and adjn compounds -- 4.2.3 Morphology Proper -- 4.3 Productivity in compounds -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- 11. Compounding in early child speech: Hebrew peer talk 2-8 -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Hebrew compounds in child language development -- 1.1.1 Adjacency smixut compounds -- 1.1.2 Compounds based on shel 'of' -- 1.2 Aims and theoretical frameworks of analysis -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Analysis
3. Results -- 3.1 General compounding measures -- 3.2 Grammatical compounds -- 3.3 Lexical compounding -- 4. Discussion: From loose to specified relations across childhood -- 4.1 2-2 -- 6 year olds -- 4.2 2 -- 6-3 year olds -- 4.3 3-4 year olds -- 4.4 4-5 year olds -- 4.5 5-6 year olds -- 4.6 7-8 year olds -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 12. Contrastive lexical typology of German and Greek child speech and child-directed speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Frequency of nominal compounds in German and Greek child speech -- Anchor 110 -- 3. Contrastive lexical analysis of German and Greek -- 3.1 Distributional analysis -- 3.2 Qualitative analysis -- Anchor 114 -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13. Discussion and outlook -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emergence of compounds and compounding patterns -- 3. Emergence of neologistic compounds -- 4. Typological characteristics of the languages concerned -- 5. Lexical typology and wealth of compounding -- 6. Development of subtypes of compounds -- 6.1 Word classes of compound constituents -- 6.2 Morphotactic transparency -- 6.3 Rise of complexity -- 7. Relations between CDS and CS -- 7.1 Errors -- 7.2 To what extent does CS follow CDS? -- 8. Theoretical and methodological consequences for acquisition studies -- 9. Theoretical consequences for the study of compounds in general -- 10. Outlook -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index

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