Eintrag

Titel

Acquisition of Comparison Constructions

Personen

Vera Hohaus, Sonja Tiemann, Sigrid Beck

Jahr

2014

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Language acquisition

ISSN

1048-9223

Seiten

215 - 249

Band

21

Heft

3

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch

Schlagwörter

Konstruktion
Kontrastiv
Spracherwerb
Vergleich

Abstract

This article presents a study on the time course of the acquisition of comparison constructions. The order in which comparison constructions (comparatives, measure phrases, superlatives, degree questions, etc.) show up in English- and German-learning children's spontaneous speech is quite fixed. It is shown to be insufficiently determined by factors like frequency. Instead, a model of parametric variation in the grammar of comparison is shown to predict the order we observe.

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