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Children's Early Productivity with Verbal Morphology
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Wagner, Laura; Swensen, Lauren D.; Naigles, Letitia R. – Cognitive Development, 2009
Three studies using the intermodal preferential looking paradigm examined onset of productive comprehension of tense/aspect morphology in English. When can toddlers understand these forms with novel verbs and novel events? The first study used familiar verbs and showed that 26-36-month olds correctly matched a past/perfective form ("-ed" or…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Toddlers