Acquisition of noun derivation in Estonian and Russian L1
Abstract
Acquisition of derivation is not a well-studied area in first language research and a comparative approach to the acquisition of derivation in different languages doesn’t exist. There is no information on how a child acquires derivation in a language with a rich and regular system of derivational patterns, or in a language where derivation is productive, but the system of derivational patterns is opaque. According to general ideas of complexity in a language, the child should start to use simplex stems first and, only after that, complex ones, that is, complexity should increase in the course of acquisition. Our paper is intended to address these issues, based on longitudinal child data from typologically different languages, Estonian and Russian. The results revealed significant differences in the acquisition of noun derivation in the two languages under observation. The system of noun derivation is acquired at a faster pace in Russian, while Estonian children have far fewer noun derivatives in their speech and they use different derivation suffixes with less regularity. Even so, the so-called building block model may be applied for both languages only partially.
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Nimisõnatuletuse omandamine varases eesti ja vene keeles
Nimisõnatuletuse omandamine ei ole esimese keele omandamise uuringute kuigi põhjalikult uuritud valdkond ning nimisõnatuletuse omandamise eri keeli kõrvutavat käsitlust veel ei ole. Seetõttu puudub informatsioon ka selle kohta, kuidas laps omandab erinevad tuletusmallid ja -liited keeles, kus tuletussüsteem on rikas ja reeglipärane, või sellises keeles, kus see süsteem on küll iseenesest rikas, kuid mitte kuigi läbipaistev. Üldiste keelelise kompleksusega seotud põhimõtete järgi peaks laps alustama omandamist kõigepealt lihtsõnadest ja alles pärast seda komplekssetest sõnadest, st komplekssus peaks kasvama arengu käigus. Siinse artikli aluseks on kahe tüpoloogiliselt erineva keele, eesti ja vene keele pikiuuringu andmed. Tulemused osutavad kahe tuletussüsteemi omandamise märkimisväärsetele erinevustele. Tuletus omandatakse vene keeles kiiremini. Eesti laste kõnes on tunduvalt vähem nimisõnatuletisi ning nad kasutavad väiksemat arvu tuletusliiteid. Komplekssete struktuuride omandamise üldine põhimõte ehk nn “lihtsamalt keerulisemale” (ingl building block model) kehtib mõlema keele nimisõnatuletuse omandamise kohta ainult osaliselt.
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