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Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Alva, Elda Alicia – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Research has demonstrated that children use different strategies to infer a referent. One of these strategies is to use inflectional morphology. We present evidence that toddlers learning Spanish are capable of using gender word inflections to infer word reference. Thirty-month-olds were tested in a preferential looking experiment. Participants…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Spanish, Toddlers
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Mervis, Carolyn B.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
This study analyzed data from a diary study of a child's lexical development. Correct forms and errors in the use of the plural morpheme were recorded from 18 to 30 months. Morphology was acquired before syntax, and there was evidence for a syntactic definition of noun by the age of 20 months. (BC)
Descriptors: Diaries, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Processing