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Peer reviewedBlount, Ben G. – Language Sciences, 1988
Luo-speaking children in Kenya responded to a test using nonce forms in morphophonology. Morphophonological processes in the acquisition of Luo plurals and possessives presented different degrees of difficulty for the subjects, with the type of morphophonological alteration in a language likely to affect the rate and order of acquisition.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries
