Common and Productive Morphemes in Language Acquisition: A Corpus-Based Study on Children’s Books

This study is a corpus on morphological features of children’s books in Turkish. The purpose the to determine derivational and inflectional suffixes Turkish children identify common productive morphemes used child literature light information obtained; hence, reach clues about determining priorities process vocabulary acquisition children. To achieve this, different examples written for were examined, was formed by analyzing suffixes, frequency use categories sub-categories determined comparison between made. results yielded that more frequently than which could be due less frequent suffixes. Also, language therefore acquired late.