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Publication Date: 1992
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Overregularization in the Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology: A Comparison of English and German. Commentary.
Clahsen, Harald
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, v57 n4 p166-78 1992
Found dissociations between regular and irregular inflectional processes in the formation of English past tenses, German noun plurals, and German participles. Children's inflectional errors include using regular patterns for irregular forms. Some linguistic processes, such as forming compound words, are sensitive to the distinction between regular and irregular forms. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Patterns, German, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Nouns, Plurals, Tenses (Grammar), Verbs
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Language: English
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