Early Verb Morphological Development of a Bangla-speaking Child. Issue 3 (3rd July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sultana, Asifa
• Is Part Of: Language learning and development. Volume 17:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 272
• Page End: 291
• Publication Date: 2021-07-03
• Subjects: Language acquisition -- Research -- Periodicals; Children -- Language -- Periodicals; 401.9305
• DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2021.1875832
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1547-5441

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Crosslinguistic research into language development reveals that typological features determine children's developmental patterns to a large extent. The present study examines the early morphological development in the verb inflectional paradigm in Bangla. Data from the first 6 months since the emergence of two-word combinations were collected from a monolingual Bangla-speaking child. Emergence of individual inflectional markers and their error patterns were identified, and interpreted with references to a range of proposals and crosslinguistic findings. The results are of significance for building a developmental profile of typically-developing Bangla-speaking children as we all for measuring the levels of development in atypically-developing children.