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Direct linkBuck-Gengler, Carolyn J.; Menn, Lise; Healy, Alice F. – Brain and Language, 2004
Level ordering has proven inadequate as a morphological theory, leaving unexplained the experimental results taken to support it as a component of innate grammar-young children's acceptance of irregular plurals in English compounds. The present study demonstrates that these results can be explained by slower access to the grammatically preferred…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Young Children
