A main challenge for language users is forging reliable relationships between words with shared components so that morphology as a system emerges from usage. For native Hebrew acquisition this means that learners acquire verbs as lexical entities, which form into a system based on Semitic roots and binyan conjugations. The Hebrew verb system is consequently organized by derivational families, where verbs in different binyan conjugations share the same root. This is illustrated by the k-t-b- based family containing katav ‘write’, nixtav ‘be written’, hixtiv ‘dictate’, huxtav ‘be dictated’, kitev ‘carbon copy [cc]’, kutav ‘be cc’ed’, and hitkatev ‘correspond’. The current study offers a systematic account of how Hebrew verb families and their components—verb lemmas, roots and binyan patterns—emerge and develop in structural and semantic terms, covering the long route from infancy to adulthood. The study is grounded in a large database (485,908 word tokens) compiled of the spoken and written productions of Hebrew-speaking toddlers, children, adolescents and adults. The study is presented in two parts. Part I describes the general characteristics of the study database with regards to the distributions of verbs, roots and binyan verb conjugations, focusing on developmental changes as indicators of the growth and consolidation of the verb lexicon. Part II presents the development of root-based verb derivational families in terms of family frequency, family size, family composition and the semantic coherence of families. Based on the empirical evidence in this paper, our main claim is that roots, binyan conjugations and derivational verb families are all emergent properties of the verb system as it develops in variegated communicative contexts.

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希伯来语衍生语言动词族的途径：习得与发展的心理语言学研究

语言用户面临的主要挑战是，在具有共享组件的单词之间建立可靠的关系，以使使用时出现系统形态。对于本地希伯来语习得，这意味着学习者习得动词作为词汇实体，并形成基于闪族语词根和宾语共轭的系统。因此，希伯来语动词系统由派生族组成，不同宾语共轭词中的动词具有相同的词根。基于ktb的家族对此进行了说明，该家族包含katav“写”，nixtav“被写”，hixtiv“命令”，huxtav“被命令”，kitev“抄送[cc]”，kutav“被cc”和hitkatev'对应'。当前的研究提供了系统的说明，说明希伯来语动词家族及其组成部分（动词引理，词根和宾语模式）如何以结构和语义术语出现和发展，涵盖了从婴儿期到成年的漫长道路。该研究基于一个大型数据库（485,908个单词标记），该数据库汇编了讲希伯来语的学步儿童，儿童，青少年和成人的口头和书面作品。该研究分为两个部分。第一部分描述了有关动词，词根和宾语动词共轭分布的研究数据库的一般特征，重点是发展变化作为动词词典增长和巩固的指标。第二部分从家庭频率，家庭规模，家庭组成和家庭的语义连贯性方面介绍了基于根的动词衍生家庭的发展。根据本文的经验证据，我们的主要主张是，