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The Acquisition of Plurality and Tense by Pidgin-Speaking Children. Technical Report No. 30.

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Day, Richard R. – 1976

This is a report of the results of an investigation of a test of plurality and past tense in standard English (SE). This research replicated Gleason's 1957-58 study in Boston. The subjects were 27 speakers of Hawaiian Creole English (HCE) in a kindergarten class in Honolulu. The results showed that the children produced very few SE plural and past…

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