Early verb development in one German-speaking child

Early Phonological and Lexical Development of a Farsi Speaking Child: A Longitudinal Case Study

The present study aims at the description and analysis of the phonological and lexical development of a child who is acquiring Farsi as his first language. The child's language production at the holophrastic stage of language development, mainly single words, is observed and recorded  longitudinally for nearly seven  months since he was 16 months old until he turned 23 months. An attempt is mad...

Verb In ections in German Child Language: A Connectionist Account

The emerging function of verb in ections in German language acquisition is modeled with a connectionist network. A network that is initially presented only with a semantic representation of sentences uses the in ectional verb ending -t to mark those sentences that are low in transitivity, whereas all other verb endings occur randomly. This behavior matches an early stage in German language acqu...

Infant Development: Perspectives from German Speaking Countries

Infant Development: Perspectives from German Speaking Countries

Theoretical considerations Empathy from a cognitivistic viewpoint According to current understanding empathy is an experience in which people participate in or share the emotional state of somebody else on the basis of this person's expression and/or their situation. The emphasis on the emotional dimension expressed in this definition is rather new. Under Piagetian influence, empathy was more o...

Verb-types and Modality in Early Child L2 Root Infinitives*

This paper investigates to what extent child second language (L2) acquisition is similar to first language (L1) acquisition. The focus is on the nature of root infinitives (RIs) produced by children, namely root declarative clauses whose main verb is either a past participle or an infinitive, whereas a finite form is required in the target language (e.g. papa partir 'daddy leave-INF' instead of...