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Peer reviewedMaslen, Robert J.C.; Theakson, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V.M.; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
In the "blocking-and-retrieval-failure" account of overregularization (OR; G. F. Marcus, 1995; G. F. Marcus et al., 1992), the claim that a symbolic rule generates regular inflection is founded on pervasively low past tense OR rates and the lack of a substantive difference between past tense and plural OR rates. Evidence of extended periods of OR…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Correlation, Language Acquisition
