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Peer reviewedStreet, Richard L., Jr.; And Others – Language Sciences, 1983
Examines speech convergence as a primitive form of socialized speech. Discusses the extent of speech patter matching by three-year-old children and whether a talkative/reticence factor influenced degrees of convergence. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Research
Peer reviewedKuczaj, Stan A., II; Borys, Robert H. – Language Sciences, 1988
Three- to nine-year-olds' (N=80) post-exposure production of regular and irregular suffixes indicated that subjects found it easier to learn a regular suffix when they heard it used with phonetically similar base forms. Subjects were more likely to overgeneralize the regular suffix to irregular forms when they had heard it used in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Morphophonemics
