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| Title: | Two-year-olds' productivity with verbal inflections |
| Author: | Jill Hohenstein |
| Institution: | King's College London |
| Author: | Nameera Akhtar |
| Institution: | University of California |
| Linguistic Field: | Psycholinguistics |
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| Abstract: | Previous research has examined children's ability to add inflections to nonsense words. The current experiments were designed to determine whether children, ranging in age from 1;9 to 2;10 (=34), could demonstrate productivity by dropping verbal inflections. In , children added -ed and -ing to novel stems, and dropped them from novel inflected forms and did so largely appropriately. In , they dropped -ing from verbs, but not from nouns, suggesting that when young children drop inflections they tend to do so appropriately, and not simply for ease of pronunciation. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 34, Issue 4, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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