Overregularization in English plural and past tense inflectional morphology: A response to Marcus (1995)

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 767-779

  Marchman, Virginia A ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^c   Goodman, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c School of Human Development ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE;

EID: 0031241245     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000997003206     Document Type: Article

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