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Level-ordering does not constrain children's ungrammatical compounds.

Elena Nicoladis1, Victoria A Murphy

  • 1Department of Psychology, P-217 Biological Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta, Canada T6G 2E9. elenan@ualberta.ca

Brain and Language
|June 3, 2004
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Children

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Developmental linguistics
  • Morphological acquisition

Background:

  • Children's acquisition of English plurals is complex.
  • The level-ordering model proposes constraints on word formation.
  • Previous research suggests children avoid regular plurals in novel compounds.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the level-ordering model's constraint on children's production of novel deverbal compounds.
  • To investigate whether children avoid regular plurals in ungrammatical compounds.

Main Methods:

  • Seventy-two English-speaking children (36 British, 36 Canadian) participated.
  • Children were assessed on their production of novel deverbal compounds.
  • Analysis focused on the use of regular vs. irregular plurals in grammatical and ungrammatical compounds.

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Main Results:

  • 50% of children producing ungrammatical compounds used regular plurals.
  • No children producing grammatical compounds used regular plurals.
  • The findings contradict the level-ordering model's predictions for ungrammatical compounds.

Conclusions:

  • Level-ordering does not constrain children's production of ungrammatical compounds.
  • The validity of level-ordering as a general constraint on child compounding is questioned.
  • Children's morphological development may be more flexible than previously assumed.