TY - JOUR ID - 25080 TI - "Zeytun Ɂangoštari", " Ɂâsemân sor", "hesse gušâyi": A Case study of Lexical Innovation JO - Language Research JA - JOLR LA - en SN - 1026-2288 AU - Ebrahimi Parsa, Fatemeh AD - Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 16 KW - acquisition of morphological processes KW - compounding and derivation KW - first language acquisition KW - lexical innovation KW - psycholinguistics DO - N2 - Having not acquired or retrieved any words for the intended concept, in the process of mother tongue acquisition, children sometimes try to innovate new words in dealing with the problem. This study empirically investigates these innovations in preschool years. The data include 60 words innovated by a female native speaker of Persian (2.6 trough 5.0). The result shows that she made use of 7 morphological processes to coin the words and regarding these innovations, adjective and compounding are the most frequent grammatical categories and morphological processes respectively. But the first morphological process used by the child is derivation through suffix "-i", the most productive Persian suffix. This result does not support Clark's findings since she says that the most productive process is the first one which children use to make their own new words. Keywords: lexical innovation, acquisition of morphological processes, first language acquisition, compounding and derivation, psycholinguistics UR - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_25080.html L1 - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_25080_a82ce9fb870f17089fa5cab0282b7c0f.pdf ER -