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SUMMARY:Morphological Contrasts in German Child Language and Child Directe
 d Speech - Sonja Eisenbeiss\, University of Essex
DTSTART:20090428T150000Z
DTEND:20090428T163000Z
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CONTACT:Susan Rolfe
DESCRIPTION:Children learning a language like German have to acquire sets 
 of contrasting forms for articles\, possessive pronouns and other words th
 at encode grammatical distinctions (e.g. singular vs. plural\, masculine v
 s. feminine\, nominative vs. accusative). I will investigate how 1-3 year 
 old German children build up paradigms of such contrasting forms and discu
 ss the implication of my empirical results for different theoretical appro
 aches to children’s morphological development. I will then show that the
  way in which adults typically talk to children presents them with many "m
 inimal pairs" that can support the acquisition of grammatical distinctions
 . 
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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