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Query:	Irregular English Past Tense
Author:	Scott McClure
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Psycholinguistics Language Acquisition
Summary:	Regarding query: http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-2594.html#1 On Sept. 9, I posted a query about Albright and Hayes (2003) ''Rules vs. Analogies in the English Past Tense: A Computational/Experimental Study,'' and whether anyone knew of any similar work, especially work involving children and overgeneralization. Several people who responded kindly mentioned these articles: Ragnarsdottir, Simonsen, and Plunkett (1999) ''The acquisition of past tense morphology in Icelandic and Norwegian children: an experimental study,'' Journal of Child Language, v. 26, 577-618. Marchman, Plunkett, and Goodman (1997) ''Overregularization in English plural and past tense morphology: a respnse to Marcus (1995),'' Journal of Child Language, v. 24, 767-779. Ramscar (2002) ''The role of meaning in inflection: Why the past tense does not require a rule,'' Cognitive Psychology, v. 45, 45-94. Thanks again to everyone who responded, Scott

LL Issue:	16.2608
Date Posted:	11-Sep-2005
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