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Article

Mapping Commission Errors to Grammatical Development: A Case Study of Malayalam

by
Gayathri G. Krishnan
*,
Arathi Raghunathan
and
Vaijayanthi M. Sarma
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
*
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Languages 2023, 8(1), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010029
Submission received: 11 June 2022 / Revised: 26 October 2022 / Accepted: 28 December 2022 / Published: 16 January 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Errors of Commission in Child Language)
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Abstract

Young children learning Malayalam use morphological categories and inflections quite productively and accurately in general. However, their utterances sometimes show the use of extra morphological material (or commission errors), revealing mismatches between adult and child grammars. In this paper, we present a survey of such errors that are observed in longitudinally collected, spontaneous speech production data of monolingual Malayalam and bilingual Malayalam–English acquiring children in order to identify both the range of commission errors and the underlying grammatical features that may have triggered them. A close analysis of the data shows us that such errors are restricted to a few grammatical loci and shed light on the specific challenges that some grammatical constraints pose for developing grammars.
Keywords: Malayalam; commission errors; early language acquisition; bilingual acquisition Malayalam; commission errors; early language acquisition; bilingual acquisition

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Krishnan, G.G.; Raghunathan, A.; Sarma, V.M. Mapping Commission Errors to Grammatical Development: A Case Study of Malayalam. Languages 2023, 8, 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010029

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Krishnan GG, Raghunathan A, Sarma VM. Mapping Commission Errors to Grammatical Development: A Case Study of Malayalam. Languages. 2023; 8(1):29. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010029

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Krishnan, Gayathri G., Arathi Raghunathan, and Vaijayanthi M. Sarma. 2023. "Mapping Commission Errors to Grammatical Development: A Case Study of Malayalam" Languages 8, no. 1: 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010029

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Krishnan, G. G., Raghunathan, A., & Sarma, V. M. (2023). Mapping Commission Errors to Grammatical Development: A Case Study of Malayalam. Languages, 8(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010029

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