PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Consonant Cluster, Phonetic Transcription, Jean Berko Gleason
3 Mar 2017
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Stage 1 rule for past tense formation not yet acquired, regular and irregular forms stored as un-analyzed chunks. Stage 2 since children never hear forms such as break-ed in the input, we can conclude from their productions of such forms that they have acquired the rule for past tense. Stage 3 children recognize that there are exceptions to the rule of past tense formation; the exceptional behavior of irregular verbs must be learned one at a time. Returning to: children do not simply memorize the ambient input but instead acquire rules that can be productively applied to new forms. Example from morphology generalization to novel words children"s application of word formation rules to novel forms shows that these rules are productive. Wug test: use novel words, show a child a picture of non-existent animal and show them another one and if they do not add the plural form of the word then they have no acquired it yet.
