Children's judgments of regular and irregular novel past-tense forms: New data on the english past-tense debate

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1497-1504

  Ambridge, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dual route model; Language acquisition; Multiple rules model; Past tense; Single route model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 78649277860     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020668     Document Type: Article

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