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Direct linkAmbridge, Ben – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Is language governed by formal rules or by analogy to stored exemplars? The acquisition of the English past tense has long played a central role in this debate. In the present study, children rated the acceptability of a regular and an irregular past-tense form of each of 40 novel verbs (e.g., "fleeped", "flept") using a…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Morphemes, Language Acquisition
