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Direct linkStemberger, Joseph Paul – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Overtensing (the use of an inflected form in place of a nonfinite form, e.g. *"didn't broke" for target "didn't break") is common in early syntax. In a ChiLDES-based study of 36 children acquiring English, I examine the effects of phonological and lexical factors. For irregulars, errors are more common with verbs of low frequency and when…
Descriptors: Syntax, Rhyme, Morphemes, Error Patterns
