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Volume 15:6 June 2015
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Acquisition of Case Markers in
Typically Developing Malayalam Speaking Children

Sreelakshmi R., Final year MASLP Student
Nandhu S Mohan., Final year MASLP Student
Satish Kumaraswamy, Asst.Professor & Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

This study aims to establish a descriptive data on acquisition of case markers in typically developing 3-8 years old Malayalam speaking children. Fifty normal school going children were grouped according to age basis and were provided with the picture description task. Picture stimuli of each case marker were used for sample collection. Responses were marked on work sheet separately and each session was recorded for further detailed analysis. Result indicated that the children in older group performed well compared to younger group in all case markers. In the current study it is found that as the age increased, the ability to use correct case marker has improved.

Key words: Typically developing children, case markers, Malayalam

Introduction

The part of morphology that covers the relationship between syntax and morphology is called morpho-syntax, and it concerns itself with inflection and paradigms, but not with word-formation or compounding. Morpho-syntax encompasses linguistic strategies and operations to represent syntactic features via morphological marking as opposed to merely combinatorial or syntactic strategies. Morpho-syntactic operations are the relation between one linguistic form and another that correlates with a conventionalized meaning distinction. The morpho-syntactical aspects include plural markers, case markers, PNG markers etc. Case markers as a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship they bear to their heads. Case is a grammatical category whose value reflects the grammatical function performed by a noun or pronoun. The major types of case markers are nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, locative and sociative.

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Sreelakshmi R. Final Year MASLP
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
Karnataka
India
lakshmilegacy.r@gmail.com

Nandhu S Mohan, Final Year MASLP
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
Karnataka
India
smnandhu4803@gmail.com

Mr. Satish Kumaraswamy
Assistant Professor
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
Karnataka
India
sat8378@yahoo.com

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