Open AccessEarly verb development in one Croatian-speaking child
Author(s) -
Antigone Katičić
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.18.2000.61
Subject(s) - croatian , verb , linguistics , focus (optics) , modal verb , psychology , history , philosophy , physics , optics
This paper shows the early development of the first approximately 50 verbs found in the recorded speech production of one Croatian girl. The aim is to analyse and interpret the child's verb development in terms of the distinction of a pre- and a protomorphological phase before modularised morphology in language acquisition (Dressler & Karpf 1995). Furthermore, focus will be laid on the emergence of first verb paradigms.