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Hungarian research on the acquisition of morphology and syntax*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Brian Macwhinney
Brian Macwhinney
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University of Denver
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Abstract

This review analyses research on the acquisition of Hungarian morphology and syntax. The specific topics covered are morphological analysis, neologisms, acquisition of the first inflections, morpheme order, word order and agreement. Several lines of evidence suggest that the first unit acquired by the child is the word. Because of the structure of Hungarian, both errors in segmentation of the utterance and errors in the segmentation of the word are minimized. Morphological analysis seems to begin at the semantic level and proceed to the morphological level. Data on acquisition of free word order and early inflections are potentially of great interest, although presently inconclusive.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , October 1976 , pp. 397 - 410
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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