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Räsänen, Sanna H. M.; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Many generativist accounts (e.g., Wexler, 1998) argue for very early knowledge of inflection on the basis of very low rates of person/number marking errors in young children's speech. However, studies of Spanish (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015) and Brazilian Portuguese (Rubino & Pine, 1998) have revealed that these low overall error rates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Finno Ugric Languages
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Matthews, Danielle E.; Theakston, Anna L. – Cognitive Science, 2006
How do English-speaking children inflect nouns for plurality and verbs for the past tense? We assess theoretical answers to this question by considering errors of omission, which occur when children produce a stem in place of its inflected counterpart (e.g., saying "dress" to refer to 5 dresses). A total of 307 children (aged 3;11-9;9)…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English, Children, Nouns