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    Experience with morphosyntactic paradigms allows toddlers to tacitly anticipate overregularized verb forms months before they produce them

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    Figueroa, Megan
    Gerken, LouAnn
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Dept Psychol
    Issue Date
    2019-10
    Keywords
    Distributional analysis
    English past tense
    Grammatical categories
    Language acquisition
    Overregularization
    
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    Figueroa, M., & Gerken, L. (2019). Experience with morphosyntactic paradigms allows toddlers to tacitly anticipate overregularized verb forms months before they produce them. Cognition, 191, 103977.
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    When do children acquire abstract grammatical categories? Studies of 2- to 3-year-olds' productions of complete morphosyntactic paradigms (e.g., all legal determiners with all nouns) suggest relatively later category acquisition, while studies of infant discrimination of grammatical vs. ungrammatical sequences suggest earlier acquisition. However, few of the latter studies have probed category generalization by examining how learners treat gaps in their input, and none have found evidence that learners before the age of 2 years fill gaps in VERB paradigms. Therefore, the three experiments presented here asked whether 16-month-olds tacitly expect to hear forms like breaked by presenting them with overregularized verbs vs. (1) nonce verbs + -ed, (2) real English nouns + -ed and (3) the correct irregular counterparts. The pattern of listening preferences suggests that toddlers anticipate overregularized forms, suggesting that they have a general proto-category VERB, to which they expect the complete set of verb inflections to apply.
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    0010-0277
    EISSN
    1873-7838
    PubMed ID
    31254748
    DOI
    10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.014
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    Final accepted manuscript
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    NSFNational Science Foundation (NSF) [DDIG 1729862, BCS 1724842]
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    10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.014
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