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Peer reviewedRaghavendra, Parimala; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Investigation of the acquisition of Tamil verb inflections in three two-year-old children revealed a high percentage of usage of verb inflections indicating tense, aspect, modality, person, number, and gender. Explanations for this early, almost error-free language acquisition are explored in terms of the facilitating properties of agglutinating…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages)
