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    The Acquisition of Number and Case from a Typological Perspective (Studies on Language Acquisition (SOLA)) (Hardback) Edited by Ursula Stephany, Edited by Maria Voeikova

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    Short Description for The Acquisition of Number and Case from a Typological PerspectiveA work about the acquisition of the grammar of the noun in children's second and third years of life. It studies the early development of fundamental linguistic distinctions in the universal category of the noun, namely singular vs plural and nominative vs accusative as well as other cases.
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  • This book is about the acquisition of the grammar of the noun in children's second and third years of life. The early development of fundamental linguistic distinctions in the universal category of the noun, namely singular vs. plural and nominative vs. accusative as well as other cases, is studied in monolingual children acquiring fourteen languages belonging to eight different language families found within and outside Europe: Germanic, Romance, Slavic/Baltic, Greek, Finnic, Turc, Semitic, and Indian American. One of the main findings of this cross-linguistic study is that children are highly sensitive to the morphological richness of their mother tongue already in the 'proto-morphological' stage of development.