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The use of nominal elements in L2 Greek
Myrto Nerantzi
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
myrtoner@yahoo.com
The present paper investigates nominal elements in L2 Greek of Pontic-Greek immigrants from
Georgia. Primarily, the study seeks to explore the use of the definite article and pronominal object
clitics in L2 Greek and to define the status of clitic and definite article omission attested in the
presentational data. Previous research has shown that the properties of these elements give rise to
persistent acquisition problems (Tsimpli 2003; Marinis 2005). Accordingly, and in view of the absence
of clitics and definite articles in L1 Russian, which is the language predominantly used before
immigration, the prediction is that the use of these elements will not be target-like. The pattern of
performance concerning these elements is further discussed in relation to the acquisition of the
indefinite article, which is also unavailable in L1 Russian.
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Marinis, T. 2005. Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Acquisition of the Definite Article in Greek. In M. Stavrou & A.
Terzi (eds.) Advances in Greek Generative Syntax. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 153-178.
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Second Language Acquisition Conference, GASLA 2002, pp. 331-339.
The development of Morphological Awareness in Greek: an exploratory study
1 Sousana Padeliadou & 2 Kyriakoula Rothou
1&2 University of Thessaly
1 spadel@uth.gr & 2 rothou@uth.gr
Purpose: The present study is part of a preliminary study on the development of morphological
awareness in Greek. The main purpose was to explore the possible differences in the formation of
derived suffixed words and in the segmentation of compounds among young children.
Method: Participants were 30 first graders (mean age 79,80 months), 33 second graders (mean age
90,45 months) and 40 third graders (103,30 months). They were native speakers of Greek and none
of them had special educational needs. The children were asked to produce derived suffixed words to
complete a sentence giving them the base word. Two types of derived words were tested: nouns
(diminutives) and adjectives. The reliability for each grade was estimated using the Cronbach analysis
and alpha ranged from 0,652 to 0,721 across the 3 grades. For the compounding the children were
asked to decompose endocentric compounds with coordination relation into their constituents. Two
types of compounds were tested: adjectives and verbs. The reliability for each grade was estimated
using the Cronbach analysis and alpha ranged from 0,732 to 0,814 across the 3 grades.
Results: For all the grades there were no ceiling effects for none of the tasks. There were statistically
significant differences between the 3 grades in the performance on the task of derivational morphology
[F(2,100)=6,017, p