TY - JOUR
T1 - The Acquisition of Hebrew Plurals
T2 - The Case of the Missing Gender Category
AU - Levy, Yonata
PY - 1983/2
Y1 - 1983/2
N2 - Children's acquisition of noun pluralization patterns in Hebrew was studied longitudinally and cross-sectionally. The data show that, through the period of acquisition (age 2–3), children make maximal use of the available morphophonological clues for pluralization; they determine their choice of the plural morpheme according to the nature of the final syllable of the noun singular. They seem totally insensitive to the semantic notion of gender which governs the choice of plurals for animate nouns, as well as to a syntactic notion of gender which in Hebrew determines noun-adjective agreement.
AB - Children's acquisition of noun pluralization patterns in Hebrew was studied longitudinally and cross-sectionally. The data show that, through the period of acquisition (age 2–3), children make maximal use of the available morphophonological clues for pluralization; they determine their choice of the plural morpheme according to the nature of the final syllable of the noun singular. They seem totally insensitive to the semantic notion of gender which governs the choice of plurals for animate nouns, as well as to a syntactic notion of gender which in Hebrew determines noun-adjective agreement.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0020712209&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0305000900005171
DO - 10.1017/S0305000900005171
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C2 - 6841484
AN - SCOPUS:0020712209
SN - 0305-0009
VL - 10
SP - 107
EP - 121
JO - Journal of Child Language
JF - Journal of Child Language
IS - 1
ER -