Development of Morphological rules in children
Devaki, L.
Development of Morphological rules in children - Mysore Central Institute of Indian Languages. 1991 - 194 p.
The study of child language is at present in a state of flux; it is becoming more and more elaborate in its methodology, and microscopic in the matter of structural examination. As a result, researchers work ing in this area are constantly forced to draw in, and depend upon more and more researches from other disciplines like Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Neurology, Speech Pathology and so on, apart from researches in Linguistics proper. These inter actions, have on the whole, resulted in mutual benefit and have also widened the scope of Linguistics.
One beneficial outcome of this interaction, parti cularly between Psychology and Linguistics, is the reciprocal enrichment of methodology. For example, Berko (1958) a Psychologist, has devised an ingenious method of testing children which is used even to this day by researchers in this field (Derwing and Baker 1977 and 1979 and Sridhara 1980).
Using this methodological innovation, an attempt is made in the present study to test children's know ledge of morphological rules through their rule exten sion behaviour, across sex, socioeconomic status and age of the language learner. This study was conducted in relation to two Indian cognate languages, Kannada and Tamil, with a developmental perspective. 201 Kannada mother tongue speakers and 206 Tamil mo ther tongue speakers were randomly selected from mother tongue media schools, categorised for their socio-economic status and the test on development of morphological rule was individually administered.
Child language
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Development of Morphological rules in children - Mysore Central Institute of Indian Languages. 1991 - 194 p.
The study of child language is at present in a state of flux; it is becoming more and more elaborate in its methodology, and microscopic in the matter of structural examination. As a result, researchers work ing in this area are constantly forced to draw in, and depend upon more and more researches from other disciplines like Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Neurology, Speech Pathology and so on, apart from researches in Linguistics proper. These inter actions, have on the whole, resulted in mutual benefit and have also widened the scope of Linguistics.
One beneficial outcome of this interaction, parti cularly between Psychology and Linguistics, is the reciprocal enrichment of methodology. For example, Berko (1958) a Psychologist, has devised an ingenious method of testing children which is used even to this day by researchers in this field (Derwing and Baker 1977 and 1979 and Sridhara 1980).
Using this methodological innovation, an attempt is made in the present study to test children's know ledge of morphological rules through their rule exten sion behaviour, across sex, socioeconomic status and age of the language learner. This study was conducted in relation to two Indian cognate languages, Kannada and Tamil, with a developmental perspective. 201 Kannada mother tongue speakers and 206 Tamil mo ther tongue speakers were randomly selected from mother tongue media schools, categorised for their socio-economic status and the test on development of morphological rule was individually administered.
Child language
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