Measurement of age-of-acquisition in morphologically rich languages: Insights from Kannada and Filipino.

ABSTRACT: In this study, we present age-of-acquisition (AoA) ratings for 885 Kannada and Filipino words as a new resource for research and education purposes. Beyond this, we consider the methodological and theoretical considerations of measuring AoA in morphologically rich, specifically agglutinative, languages, to study child language acquisition. Parents, teachers, and experts provided subjective ratings of when they thought a child acquired each word. Results were generally consistent between the two languages. Mixed-effects models demonstrated that word characteristics, including parts-of-speech category, word length, and age band of first occurrence in a print corpus, were significantly related to AoA ratings, whereas rater characteristics, including participant type, age, gender, and number o

SUBMITTER: Dulay KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12669312 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature