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Children's over-regularization of nouns and verbs*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Maureen V. Cox
Maureen V. Cox*
Affiliation:
University of York
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Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK.
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Abstract

The procedure used by Pratt, Tunmer & Bowey (1984) was employed in this study to investigate young children's abilities to correct over-regularized plural nouns and verbs in the past tense. Older children (mean age 6; 4) performed better than younger children (mean age 4; 11) and plural nouns were corrected significantly more than past-tense verb forms. As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.

Type
Notes and Discussion
Information
Journal of Child Language , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , February 1989 , pp. 203 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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Footnotes

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I am grateful for the assistance of Susan Lee in collecting the data for this study.

References

REFERENCE

Pratt, C., Tunmer, W. E. & Bowey, J. A. (1984). Children's capacity to correct grammatical violations in sentences. Journal of Child Language 11. 129–41.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed