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Development of Morphophonemic Structures in
Typically Developing Kannada Speaking Children of Age Range 4-8 Years

Rakshitha Srihari (III BASLP Student), Neha Jayakumar (Intern Student)
Rakshitha S (I MASLP Student) and Pooja V, Lecturer

Abstract

Language is the most important aspect in the life of all being. We use language to express inner thoughts and emotions, make sense of complex and abstract thought, and also to learn how to communicate with others. Language acquisition is a hierarchical process which develops from birth to several years of life. Morphophonemic changes are phonological or sound modification that results when morphemes are placed together. The present study focuses on the development of morphophonemic structure among children who are native speakers of Kannada language. The study highlights the need to carry out more research in this area for better understanding of language acquisition among these children in order to develop both assessment and intervention programmes. Presently, the lack of acquisition data has hinged the development of any standardized tests in Kannada. Hence, the present study aims to explore morphophonemic structures in Kannada speaking typically developing children with the objective of analysis the data of among these children across 4-8 years. The result show that these structure start developing by 4years of age. Most importantly as age increases these structures acquisition also increases. By 7-8 years of age most of these structures develop completely. The study also discusses various studies supporting the results.

Introduction

Language is the most important aspect in the life of all beings. We use language to express inner thoughts and emotions, make sense of complex and abstract thought, and also to learn how to communicate with others. When we communicate with native speaker, we need a good language and pronunciation. So that in English we know about linguistic and its process of learning. Linguistic of morphology is the study of word structure. It seeks to characterize the system of categories and rules involved in word formation and interpretation. When we talk about morphology, it related with Morphophonology. Morphophonology is a branch of linguistics which studies about the phonological structure of morphemes, the alternative series which serve a morphological function and the combinatory phonic modifications of morphemes which happen when they are combined. Morphophonemics may be defined as analysis and classification of the phonological factors which affect the pronunciation of morphemes or, correspondingly, the morphological factors which affect the appearance of phonemes. In Morphophonemics, we basically study interaction between morphological and phonological processes and how they these factors affect each other. Morphophonemic change usually occurs at morpheme boundaries and it involves sounds that are associated with separate phonemes.

Morphophonemic changes are phonological or sound modifications that result when morphemes are placed together. For example, electric changes to electricity (Ingram, 1947). Several rules for morphophonemic change are learned gradually throughout elementary school.

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Rakshitha Srihari (III BASLP Student)
rakshithasrihari611@gmail.com


Neha Jayakumar (Intern Student)
nehajayakumar2409@gmail.com


Rakshitha S (I MASLP Student)
srakshithasgowdas@gmail.com


Pooja V
Lecturer, PhD Scholar
poojavprince@gmail.com
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015

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