Vie\u010d\u010da artihkkala d\u00e1s<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n In this paper, the terms premorphology<\/em> and protomorphology<\/em> are first defined,\u00a0and then, some pre- and protomorphological word forms by a bilingual\u00a0Sami- and Finnish-speaking girl aged 1;1\u20133;6 are discussed.<\/p>\n Premorphology is the stage of language acquisition where the child learns\u00a0word forms by imitating them and it doesn\u2019t inflect them itself. At the protomorphological\u00a0stage the child identifies morphological elements of the\u00a0language and starts producing inflected word forms itself.<\/p>\n The first nouns adopted from adult language as unanalysed chunks, appeared to be nom.sg. but in some cases gen.-akk.sg. served as the first form. In the case of verbs, the unmarked forms imp.2.p.sg. and ind.pres.3.p.sg. were the first forms used by the child. These forms have been documented as initial premorphological forms in e.g. Finnish, too. Among the main protomorphological\u00a0phenomena identified in the data so far, is that the child overgeneralizes some inflectional patterns by choosing a word stem which differes from the stem in adult language (e.g. j\u00e1ma<\/strong>i<\/em> \u2018j\u00e1mii\u2019, cf. mana<\/strong>i<\/em>; \u0161atti<\/strong>i<\/em> \u2018\u0161attai\u2019, cf. bo\u0111i<\/strong>i).<\/em> In some inflectional forms, the stems without any suffixes are used as morphological wholes (e.g. oainn\u00e1<\/em> (= oainn\u00e1-n) \u2018I see\u2019, boa\u0111\u00e1<\/em> (= boa\u0111\u00e1-t) \u2018you (sg.) come\u2019). Another central phenomenon is the defective mastery of the morphophonological process called grade alternation (e.g. juhka<\/em> \u2018juga\u2019, j\u00e1pmii<\/em> \u2018j\u00e1mii\u2019, boa\u0111\u00e1<\/em> \u2018boaht\u00e1\u2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c1lgogeah\u010dastat s\u00e1megielat m\u00e1n\u00e1 ovda- ja \u00e1rramorfologiijai Johanna Ij\u00e4s (S\u00e1mi Instituhtta ja Oulu universitehta) Vie\u010d\u010da artihkkala d\u00e1s (pdf). Preliminary view of pre- and protomorphology in North Sami child language In this paper, the terms premorphology and protomorphology are first defined,\u00a0and then, … Les videre Preliminary view of pre- and protomorphology in North Sami child language<\/em><\/h3>\n