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The Acquisition of Past Tense Morphology in Icelandic and Norwegian Children: An Experimental Study.

Ragnarsdottir, Hrafnhildur; Gram Simonsen, Hanne; Plunkett, Kim – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Investigated Icelandic and Norwegian children's knowledge of the past tense of verbs. Researchers systematically manipulated verb characteristics (type frequency, token frequency, and phonological coherence). These factors played an important role in the acquisition of the two languages. The predominant source of errors in children shifted during…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Grammar