Learning past tense morphology with specific language impairment: a case study

This paper presents a case study of a child with specific language impairment who usually omitted the regular past inflection in obligatory contexts yet occasionally over-regularized the past (e.g. *blowed). A treatment approach was employed that permitted a test of one current account of this parad...

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Published in:Child language teaching and therapy 1994-06, Vol.10 (2), p.127-138
Main Authors: Eyer, Julia A., Leonard, Laurence B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Children
Inflection (Morphology)
Morphology
Native language acquisition
Specific language impairment
Tense
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Summary:This paper presents a case study of a child with specific language impairment who usually omitted the regular past inflection in obligatory contexts yet occasionally over-regularized the past (e.g. *blowed). A treatment approach was employed that permitted a test of one current account of this paradoxical pattern, the filled paradigm' hypothesis. The child's gains over the treatment period did not conform to the predic tions of the hypothesis, but rather suggested the possibility that her use of the past tense inflection was related to the phonological properties of the verb stem.
ISSN:0265-6590
1477-0865
DOI:10.1177/026565909401000201