The acquisition of agglutinating languages: converging evidence from Tamil.
The acquisition of verb inflections in Tamil, an agglutinating language, was investigated in three 2-year-old children. The findings revealed a high percentage use of verb inflections indicating tense, aspect, modality, person, number and gender by all three children. Explanations for this early, almost error-free acquisition are discussed in terms of the facilitating properties of agglutinating languages.
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male