Child Shona noun prefixes

dc.creator	Catherine R Sibanda
dc.creator	Maxwell Kadenge
dc.date	2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:08:27Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:08:27Z
dc.identifier	10.5785/27-1-96
dc.identifier	0259-2312
dc.identifier	2224-0012
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ef637b2158de4a67bf00369cdce1533f
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/12033
dc.description	<p><em>This article falls under the broad area of child language acquisition and it aims to present an analysis of the acquisition of Shona noun class prefixes. The data collection procedures involved fortnightly observation and audio-recording of the spontaneous speech of three children who were acquiring Shona as a mother tongue. The results of this investigation confirm findings from earlier studies and show that noun class prefixes are acquired in three partially overlapping stages. In the first stage, nouns are produced without class prefixes and as time progresses, in the second stage, they are produced with them but in the form of an onsetless vowel. In the third stage, nouns are produced with full and phonologically appropriate class prefixes. The empirical and theoretical findings of this investigation are expected to broaden and deepen our knowledge of morphology and the phonology-morphology interface in the context of child language acquisition. As there are few descriptive and theoretical studies on the acquisition of Shona, this research recommends more studies on this subject. </em></p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Stellenbosch University
dc.relation	http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/96
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0259-2312
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0012
dc.source	Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, Vol 27, Iss 1 (2011)
dc.subject	Shona
dc.subject	noun class prefix
dc.subject	mother tongue
dc.subject	child language acquisition
dc.subject	stage
dc.subject	morphology
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Child Shona noun prefixes
dc.type	article