The acquisition process of irregular verbs in Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Aline Garcia Rodero Takahira

Keywords:

acquisition, verbal inflection, Distributed Morphology, irregular verbs.

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the irregular verb formation and acquisition process in Brazilian Portuguese, considering cases of regularization as fazi/trazi for fazer/trazer. This acquisition process is frequently explained by the binary mechanism model of inflection that involves two distinct representational systems (CLASHEN et al., 2002). Our main goal is to point to a treatment of this phenomenon in a theory that avoids the presupposition that the same verb needs two processes to be formed. We consider Siddiqi (2009) that defends that the root, the head v and the past feature merge forming a complex functional head, and the vocabulary item (VI) enters in only one place. We explain the regularization process as a case in which the child does not form this complex functional head, then the regularized form: the root of fazer/trazer, the head v and
the VI that occurs in past form –i or –u are separately inserted.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Takahira, A. G. R. (2016). The acquisition process of irregular verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 42(1), 430–441. Retrieved from https://revistadogel.emnuvens.com.br/estudos-linguisticos/article/view/1119

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Section

Morfologia