MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BANGLA SPEAKING CHILDREN: A PILOT STUDY
Verb inflections have often been found to be challenging for children to acquire. This paper explores the methodological specifications for eliciting a set of inflected forms in Bangla morphology that is of interest for examining childrenaEUR(tm)s morphosyntactic development, based on a pilot study conducted with 20 monolingual Bangla speaking children between ages two and four. The study identifies a preliminary picture of development with regard to the grammatical markers examined, and puts forward a set of guidelines specific to examining those markers in larger studies.A