Acquisition of Russian nominal derivation in monolingualism and bilingualism

The case study focuses on the acquisition of Russian derivational morphology in terms nouns by monolingual (Russian) and simultaneous bilingual (Russian German) children early age. results are based analysis representative natural longitudinal recordings transcribed stored CHAT format using CHILDES system. first patterns methods nominal word-formation along with morphemes used revealed. properties that indicate productive use derivatives, such as presence simplex–derivative pairs, chains word families, well occasionalisms noted. similarities differences including their semantic domains, mono- situations discussed. Keywords: nouns, word-formation, simplexes, compounding, Russian, German