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S/PS/57. Acquisition of verb inflections in the past tense in children

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2000
DATE:
2006
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29.99 GBP

The paper examines the issues of English grammar acquisition in children focusing on the psychological mechanisms of acquiring the regular and irregular verb forms in the past tense. Academic literature is reviewed on the cognitive processing of the past tense inflection, associative memory, children developmental errors in verb usage, etc. arguing whether there is a single or a double route mechanism of past tense forms acquisition.

 

KEYWORDS: Verb forms, language acquisition, children,