Irregular past tense forms in English: How data from children with specific language impairment contribute to models of morphology

Morphology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-141

  Marshall, C R ^a,b   van der Lely, Heather K J ^a,c,d  

^a Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Grammatical Specific Language Impairment; Inflectional morphology; Over regularisation; Phonology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858441818     PISSN: 18715621     EISSN: 18715656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-011-9195-4     Document Type: Article

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