TY  - JOUR
  - Dąbrowska, E., ; Szczerbinski, M.
  - 2006
  - Unknown
  - Journal of Child Language
  - Polish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity
  - Published
  - ()
  - 33
  - 3
  - 559
  - 597
  - 57 Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively. Results show that this ability develops early: the majority of two-year olds were already productive with all inflections apart from dativeneuter; and the overall performance of the four-year-olds was very similar to that of adults. All age groups were more productive with inflections that apply to large and/or phonologically diverse classes, although class size and token frequency appeared to be more important for younger children (two- and three-year-olds) and phonologicaldiversity for older children and adults. Regularity, on the other hand, was a very poor predictor of productivity. The results support usage-based models of language acquisition and are problematic for the dual mechanism model.  
  - 10.1017/S0305000906007471
DA  - 2006/NaN
ER  - 

@article{V104778491,
   = {Dąbrowska, E.,  and  Szczerbinski, M.},
   = {2006},
   = {Unknown},
   = {Journal of Child Language},
   = {Polish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity},
   = {Published},
   = {()},
   = {33},
   = {3},
  pages = {559--597},
   = {{57 Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively. Results show that this ability develops early: the majority of two-year olds were already productive with all inflections apart from dativeneuter; and the overall performance of the four-year-olds was very similar to that of adults. All age groups were more productive with inflections that apply to large and/or phonologically diverse classes, although class size and token frequency appeared to be more important for younger children (two- and three-year-olds) and phonologicaldiversity for older children and adults. Regularity, on the other hand, was a very poor predictor of productivity. The results support usage-based models of language acquisition and are problematic for the dual mechanism model.  }},
   = {10.1017/S0305000906007471},
  source = {IRIS}
}