Experimentelle Studien zur Flexion und Wortbildung

This is a comparative analysis between ,normal' language acquisition and dysgrammatism. To this end the study concentrates on two specific areas, morphology acquisition and lexical composition. In terms of ongoing theoretical discussion, Part One of the study contributes an analysis of new data on plural morphology and lexical composition collected in the framework of psycholinguistic elicitation procedures (n = 37-66; 3-8 years of age). Part Two examines the data from 7 dysgrammatic children (5-12 years) against a group of normal children at the same stage of acquisition (mean length of utterance in words; control group n = 8; 3-7 years).