Noun compounds in North Saami language acquisition
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https://doi.org/10.7557/sda.8308Keywords:
language acquisition, morphology, word formation, compound, compound noun, North SaamiAbstract
This article deals with compound nouns in one North Saami-speaking child under the age of three. The first compounds were recorded at age 1 year 9 months, i.e. during the transitional phase between pre- and protomorphology. The most common morphological types of compound nouns appeared in the child’s language before age 2 years 6 months. They are all subordinate compounds. Most are endocentric, but some exocentric words were also noted. The non-head is usually a noun consisting of one lexeme, but the non-head may itself also be a compound made up of two nouns. In some cases, the non-head may be an adverb, an adjective or a word from a language other than Saami. The non-head is usually in the nominative singular. In a few words, however, the non-head is genitive singular or plural. The frequency of various non-heads in child-directed speech corresponds with the order of appearance of different types of compounds in the child’s language. This also correlates well with the amount of different types of compound words used by the child.
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