From Telegraphic Speech to Morphological and Syntactic Iconicity. Early Child Speech Development from Polish and English Data

Ewa Konieczna

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Konieczna, Ewa. From Telegraphic Speech to Morphological and Syntactic Iconicity. Early Child Speech Development from Polish and English Data. Red. . Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2014, 216 s. ISBN 978-83-7996-067-5

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Natural Morphology, cognitive development, overgeneralisation, inflectional diagram, lexical innovation

The work of Dr Ewa Konieczna constitutes an important and valuable contribution to the studies of first language acquisition. Although intensive research in this field is being carried out in many countries and is concerned with data coming from a...

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-7996-067-5

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego

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2014

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216

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Acknowledgements10
Introduction11
CHAPTER I. General overview of first language acquisition theories15
Introduction15
1.1. Milestones in first language acquisition research16
1.1.1. Earliest records of first language acquisition16
1.1.2. Behaviourism16
1.1.3. Alternatives to behaviourism17
1.2. Chomsky’s Universal Grammar19
1.3. First grammatical analyses24
1.4. Theories stemming from the UG approach28
1.5. New developments31
1.5.1. Minimalism and functional categories31
1.5.2. Cognitive theories of first language acquisition33
1.5.3. Modern cognitive approaches to first language acquisition38
Conclusion47
CHAPTER II. Omission of content and function words48
Introduction48
2.1. Language redundancy49
2.2. Definition of telegraphic speech53
2.3. Explanation of omissions55
2.3.1. Omission of functors56
2.3.2. Omission of contentives59
2.4. Ambiguity76
2.4.1. Ambiguity of telegraphic speech78
2.4.2. Ambiguity of sentences deprived of content words97
2.5. Semantic analysis of sentences devoid of content and function words in Polish and English113
Conclusion118
CHAPTER III. Morphological and syntactic iconicity in child language120
Introduction120
3.1. Historical background121
3.1.1. Arbitrary and motivated signs122
3.1.2. Motivated and arbitrary signs in language124
3.2. Morphological iconicity128
3.2.1. Natural Morphology128
3.2.2. Morphological iconicity in the light of the theory of Natural Morphology132
3.2.3. Images in children’s language134
3.2.4. Inflectional diagrams in children’s language138
3.2.5. Derivationaliconicity165
3.3. Syntacticiconicity183
3.3.1. The principle of quantity183
3.3.2. The principle of sequentiality189
3.3.3. The principle of distance190
Conclusion191
Conclusions193
References204

childetymologies.Toaccountfortheexistenceoftheseformsinthechild

languageDresher(1981)hasproposedthegeneralisationprinciple.Accordingto

thisprinciple,withthepassageoftime,morecomplexformsthatrequiremore

markingandareexceptional,areovergeneralisedasregular,unmarkedonesand

preferredoverthemsincetheirformationdoesn’trequireanyradicalchangesto

thestructureofwords.Atsomepointindevelopment,thegeneralisationprinciple

restrictstheformofthechild’srulesbyexcludingallirregularities.

Since

theacquisitionofirregularformsinEnglishbymeansofthe

generalisationprinciplecannotbeexplained,thelexicalprinciple,statingthat

individualparadigmaticalternationsarelearntasseparatelexicalitems,hasbeen

proposed(Ingram(1985)).Itshowswhychildreninitiallydonotproduce

overgeneralisations,suchasfoots(theyeitheromitirregularpluralsorusethem

correctly).Thisisduetothefactthatatfirsttheyacquiretheparadigmaticvariants

likecat-cats,dog-dogsasseparatepairsofwords,onlylaterrealisingthatthere

existsapluralmorpheme-s.Inthelightofthisprinciple,inthebeginningchildren

produceirregularpluralscorrectly,treatingthemasseparatevocabularyentries;

however,aftertheydiscovertheexistenceoftheruleofformingpluralsandthe

pluralmarker,theyattachitindiscriminatelytoallsingularnouns.

However,bypassingthroughthesetwostagesintheacquisitionofirregular

forms,thechildcouldconcludethattherearetwopluralforms:footsandfeet.In

ordertoexplainwhythisdoesnothappenWexler&Culicover(1980)have

proposedtheuniquenessprinciple,statingthatthechildselectsonlythisform

whichisusedinthechild’slinguisticenvironment.

Finally,childrenalsoresorttotheprincipleofstructuredependencyin

formingtheirutterances(Cook(1988)).Thisprincipleassertsthatknowledgeis

basedon[ł]structuralrelationshipsinasentenceratherthanonasequenceof

items(Cook(1988:2)).Itmeansthattheknowledgeoflanguageinvolvesthe

knowledgeofsyntacticcategories.

ProponentsoftheUGtheoryhavepresentedseveralargumentsfromthe

firstlanguageacquisitiondatatosupporttheirhypotheses.Firstofall,themain

characteristicsofL1acquisitionsharethesamepropertiesnotonlywithinone

languagebutalsoacrosslanguages.

3Thus,irrespectiveofthelanguagetobe

learnt,allchildrengothroughsimilarstages(e.g.theacquisitionofnegationis

verysimilarcross-linguistically).

Moreover,childlanguageisrule-governedandsystematic,andveryoften

rulescreatedbychildrendonotcorrespondtoadultones.Childrenarealso

extremelyresistanttocorrection,whichisyetanotherpieceofevidencethat

theypossessaninternalisedsystemofrulesthattheystandby.Therefore,the

3Evidently,aswillbeseeninthesubsequentpartofthischapter,thisviewisnotsharedby

theproponentsofcognitivism.

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