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Commentary on ‘Filler syllables: what is their status in emerging grammar?’ by Ann Peters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2001

LISE MENN  and
ANDREA FELDMAN
LISE MENN
Affiliation:
Linguistics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
ANDREA FELDMAN
Affiliation:
University Writing Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Abstract

Peters sets up a very useful initial structure for classifying elements which are not yet well-defined morphemes, especially those that seem to be modelled phonologically on adult functors. Some of these primitive elements (pre-morphological items) have neither semantic content nor distributional properties that correspond to any adult morpheme, while the more advanced (protomorphological) items have begun to take on some of the syntactic/semantic characteristics of particular classes of adult-language morphemes.

Type
Commentary
Information
Journal of Child Language , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 269 - 271
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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