Susan Ervin. Imitation and structural change in childrren's language. In New Directions in the Study of Language. MIT Press, 1964. Home/Search Document Not in Database Summary Related Articles |
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....by Berko [1] a number of English speaking children were shown representations of a fanciful being called a wug. When asked to say something about a situation with more than one of these beings, the children correctly pluralized the novel word to make wugz (not wugs ) In another experiment [4], Ervin showed that young children who first use an irregular verb properly (such as came ) would later err on the same verb (such as comed ) before they use the verb correctly again. In this way children reliably exhibit behavior that indicates that they have made generalizations that linguists ....
Susan Ervin. Imitation and structural change in childrren's language. In New Directions in the Study of Language. MIT Press, 1964.
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