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Tomoko Tatsumi; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study tested the claim of input-based accounts of language acquisition that children's inflectional errors reflect competition between different forms of the same verb in memory. In order to distinguish this claim from the claim that inflectional errors reflect the use of a morphosyntactic default, we focused on the Japanese verb system,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Error Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
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Räsänen, Sanna H. M.; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Young English-speaking children often produce utterances with missing 3sg -s (e.g., *He play). Since the mid 1990s, such errors have tended to be treated as Optional Infinitive (OI) errors, in which the verb is a non-finite form (e.g., Wexler, 1998; Legate & Yang, 2007). The present article reports the results of a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Young Children, English, Speech, Error Patterns