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Wagley, Neelima; Perrachione, Tyler K.; Ostrovskaya, Irina; Ghosh, Satrajit S.; Saxler, Patricia K.; Lymberis, John; Wexler, Kenneth; Gabrieli, John D. E.; Kovelman, Ioulia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Child language acquisition is marked by an optional infinitive period (ages 2-4 years) during which children use nonfinite (infinitival) verb forms and finite verb forms interchangeably in grammatical contexts that require finite forms. In English, children's errors include omissions of past tense /--ed/ and 3rd-person singular /--s/.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Error Patterns, Adults, Morphology (Languages)