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Matthews, Danielle E.; Theakston, Anna L. – Cognitive Science, 2006
How do English-speaking children inflect nouns for plurality and verbs for the past tense? We assess theoretical answers to this question by considering errors of omission, which occur when children produce a stem in place of its inflected counterpart (e.g., saying "dress" to refer to 5 dresses). A total of 307 children (aged 3;11-9;9)…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English, Children, Nouns