De Anza College Numerical Morphology Supports Early Number Word Learning Analysis

1. Introduction.I am a native speaker of (standard) Italian and I learned French when I was in high school. Istudied French for 5 years and I travelled to French-speaking countries on a number ofoccasions and I spent there a few months. I am also a native speaker of a non-standard varietyof Italian which spoken in the south of Italy.In section 4 of this paper I am going to compare standard Italian and French.2. Morphology.Italian exhibits a very rich inflectional morphology, i.e. a great number of verb endings andnoun endings. One specific verb ending is able to give several pieces of information: person,number, tense, and mood. For example, -eremo in example (1 a) indicates that the verb is a firstplural person, the tense is future, and the mood is indicative. The verb ending -endo in example(1 b) tells us that the verb is a gerund and it is present, and no person is expressed by theending.