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Nonword inflection and the role of its mental representation on language acquisition of preschool children
 Walzová, Lucie ; Smolík, Filip (advisor) ; Jonáš, Juraj (referee)
Abstract This bachelor's thesis examines the nonwords inflection and the importance of their mental representation in preschool children's language acquisition. The theoretical part of the thesis presents the main findings of the studies of inflection and morphological production in language acquisition. It describes the main theoretical streams which are trying to describe the mechanism of word inflection in children, and then presents the main phenomena of children's morphological production based on the results of West Slavic language acquisition studies. The thesis also attempts to demonstrate the role of animacy in word inflection and the importance of nonwords as a tool for exploring the mechanisms behind morphological acquisition. The empirical part of this thesis investigates the role of animacy as a semantic cue in pseudowords inflection and the importance of the gender and pattern of the pseudoword in eliciting the accusative the given nominative form for preschool children. The results of the research suggest that animacy is not significant as a semantic marker for children's acquisition, but its implementation in the masculine gender of the Czech language that determines the affix in different cases is something that children follow in inflection. In feminins, on the other hand, the...
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