Nominal compound acquisition / edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Nominal Compound Acquisition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Compounding -- 1.1 Aim of the volume -- 1.2 Compounding preferences -- 1.3 Compounding vs. phrasal syntax -- 1.4 Classification of compounds -- 2. Methodology and theoretical approach -- 2.1 Longitudinal study of spontaneous speech -- 2.2 Distinctions between phases -- 2.2.1 Premorphology -- 2.2.2 Protomorphology -- 2.2.3 Core morphology -- 3. Relations between input and output -- 4. Linguistic typology

5. Summaries of chaptersReferences -- 1. Emergence and early development of German compounds -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nominal compounding in adult Austrian German -- 3. A brief history of research -- 4. Acquisition data -- 5. Amalgams -- 6. Phrases vs. compounds? -- 7. Emergence of compounding -- 8. Order of emergence of compounds with and without interfixes -- 9. A blind alley development -- 10. Productivity and emergence of compound patterns -- 11. The impact of transparency -- 12. Recursivity -- 13. Discussion and outlook -- Acknowledgements

6.5 Innovative compound nouns (neologisms)7. CDS versus CS -- 8. Lexical typology -- 9. Concluding remarks -- References -- 3. Acquisition of nominal compounds in Russian -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Russian compounding: Main characteristics -- 1.1.1 Formation and usage -- 1.1.2 Semantics, structure and accentual features of compounds -- 1.1.3 Compound â#x80;#x98;candidatesâ#x80;#x99; for early emergence in adult â#x80;#x93; child conversation -- 2. The data and method -- 3. Early development of compounds in Russian CS -- 3.1 Emergence of the earliest compounds

3.2 Development of compounding3.3 Simplicity and transparency in compound acquisition -- 3.4 Individual features of compound repertoire in CS -- 3.5 Productive use of compounds -- 3.6. Productivity and frequency in compound acquisition -- 3.6.1 Influence of target-language -- 3.6.2 Influence of â#x80;#x98;compound inputâ#x80;#x99;: Quantitative analysis -- 4. Lexical typology -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. Early development of compounds in two French childrenâ#x80;#x99;s corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. French compounding -- 3. The data

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