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dc.contributor.authorMitrofanova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-05T07:18:39Z
dc.date.available2018-09-05T07:18:39Z
dc.date.created2018-02-28T19:34:32Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Child Language. 2018, .nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0305-0009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2560815
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the acquisition of locative prepositional phrases in L1 Norwegian. We report on two production experiments with children acquiring Norwegian as their first language and compare the results to similar experiments conducted with Russian children. The results of the experiments show that Norwegian children at age 2 regularly produce locative utterances lacking overt prepositions, with the rate of preposition omission decreasing significantly by age 3. Furthermore, our results suggest that phonologically strong and semantically unambiguous locative items appear earlier in Norwegian children's utterances than their phonologically weak and semantically ambiguous counterparts. This conclusion is confirmed by a corpus study. We argue that our results are best captured by the Underspecified P Hypothesis (UPH, Mitrofanova, 2017), which assumes that at early stages of grammatical development, the underlying structure of locative utterances is underspecified, with more complex functional representations emerging gradually based on the input. This approach predicts that the rate of acquisition in the domain of locative PPs should be influenced by the lexical properties of individual language-specific grammatical elements (such as frequency, morphological complexity, phonological salience, or semantic ambiguity). Our data from child Norwegian shows that this prediction is borne out. Specifically, the results of our study suggest that phonologically more salient and semantically unambiguous items are mastered earlier than their ambiguous and phonologically less salient counterparts, despite the higher frequency of the latter in the input.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)nb_NO
dc.titleAcquisition of locative utterances in Norwegian: structure-building via lexical learningnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber25nb_NO
dc.source.volume45nb_NO
dc.source.journalJournal of Child Languagenb_NO
dc.source.issue4nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0305000918000016
dc.identifier.cristin1569548
dc.description.localcode© 2018. This is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000016nb_NO
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cristin.unitnameInstitutt for språk og litteratur
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