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How 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?

dc.contributor.authorLadanyi, Eniko
dc.contributor.authorKovacs, Agnes M.
dc.contributor.authorGervain, Judit
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-23T16:37:50Z
dc.date.available2020-09-23T16:37:50Z
dc.date.issued2020-03
dc.identifier.citationLadányi E, Kovács ÁM, Gervain J. How 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language? Infancy. 2020;25:190– 204. https ://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12324en_US
dc.identifier.issn1525-0008
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/16144
dc.description.abstractWhile phonological development is well-studied in infants, we know less about morphological development. Previous studies suggest that infants around one year of age can process words analytically (i.e., they can decompose complex forms to a word stem and its affixes) in morphologically simpler languages such as English and French. The current study explored whether 15-month-old infants learning Hungarian, a morphologically complex, agglutinative language with vowel harmony, are able to decompose words into a word stem and a suffix. Potential differences between analytical processing of complex forms with back versus front vowels were also studied. The results of Experiment 1 indicate that Hungarian infants process morphologically complex words analytically when they contain a frequent suffix. Analytic processing is present both in the case of complex forms with back and front vowels according to the results of Experiment 2. In light of the results, we argue for the potential relevance of the early development of analytic processing for language development.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipH2020 European Research Council, Grant/Award Number: 773202 ERC-2017-COG; Marie Sklodowska-Curie, Grant/Award Number: 641858en_US
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dc.publisherInfancyen_US
dc.rights© 2020 The Authors. Infancy published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Congress of Infant Studies. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
dc.source.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/infa.12324
dc.titleHow 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/infa.12324


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