Languages (Dec 2022)

Argument Marking and Verbal Agreement in the Speech of Georgian Children

  • Tamar Makharoblidze,
  • Teona Damenia,
  • Nino Doborjginidze,
  • Nino Tsintsadze,
  • Tinatin Tchintcharauli,
  • Tamar Kalkhitashvili

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040314
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4
p. 314

Abstract

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This paper describes the language acquisition and verb-forming processes related to the issue of argument marking for native-speaker Georgian children from 24 to 42 months of age, who were born and raised in Georgia. Because of the complexity of the Georgian verbal system, it is a challenge to study the acquisition process in this language. We attempted to observe how native-speaker children overcome this complexity during the acquisition process. The study is based on samples of four Georgian-speaking children from the developing corpus of Georgian-speaking children.

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