Variation and acquisition of noun inflection and verbal inflection

Abstract

Data of spontaneous production from children between 1;11 and 5;0 were collected from AQUIVAR-PEUL/UFRJ Sample and analyzed in face of their character of sociolinguistic variable and as a developmental process. In this paper we discuss the relationship between linguistic knowledge and acquisition, according to some data of acquisition of variable inflexion of nouns and verbs. The results for verb inflexion revealed that the constraints observed for the adult community manifested gradually indicating the gradual acquisition of them. The same situation wasn’t observed for data of noun inflexion. The implications of these results are discussed.

Keywords

• variação, aquisição, flexão nominal, flexão verbal