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Rubino, Rejane B.; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
A study of subject-verb agreement in 3-year-old speakers of Brazilian Portuguese found an overall low error rate, but with important contrasts in both frequency of production of different verb inflections and rate of agreement errors associated with them, suggesting subject-verb agreement is acquired piecemeal and the learning of particular verb…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Elbers, Loekie – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Reviews theoretical arguments from a longitudinal study of 1 Dutch child (age 3;8.13 at start) for considering production as a source of input for analysis and presents empirical evidence supporting the output-as-input hypothesis for the blending of the Dutch words "wats" and "iets." Evidence suggests the child analyzed his own…
Descriptors: Dutch, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Generalization