The emergence process: Conceptual and linguistic influences on morphological development
Department
Occupational Therapy
Abstract
This paper extends prior research on the links between cognition and semantic/pragmatic aspects of language to the more formal area of morphology, and highlights the importance of studying process in development, rather than merely looking at end products. An analysis of early morphology in three children with varying degrees of vision illustrates how acquisition is mediated by the unique circumstances of a child's language learning environment and reveals a relationship between cognition and language in which either may lead the way for advances in the other. For example, we find blind children differ from their sighted peers in acquiring time morphology before space morphology and discuss this in terms of adaptive strategies and saliency of information. © 1992, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1992
Publication Title
First Language
ISSN
0142-7237
Volume
12
Issue
34
DOI
10.1177/014272379201203406
First Page
95
Last Page
115
Recommended Citation
Dunlea, Anne and Andersen, Elaine S., "The emergence process: Conceptual and linguistic influences on morphological development" (1992). All Faculty Scholarship. 22.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/shs-all/22
