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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism

Background:

  • Overregularization, such as using "catched" instead of "caught," is a known phenomenon in child language acquisition.
  • Previous research indicated that bilingual children use and accept overregularized forms at high rates.
  • The prevalence of overregularization in adult bilingual speakers was less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the extent to which bilingual adult speakers report hearing and using overregularized English past tense forms.
  • To compare the responses of bilingual adults to those of monolingual English speakers regarding overregularizations.

Main Methods:

  • Thirty Spanish/English-speaking adults working with bilingual children participated.
  • A modified grammaticality judgment task was used, presenting correct irregular/regular forms and overregularized/irregularized forms.
  • Participants indicated if they heard these forms from other bilingual adults and if they used them personally.

Main Results:

  • Bilingual adults acknowledged hearing correct forms 96% of the time.
  • They reported hearing overregularized forms (e.g., "catched") in 62% of instances.
  • Bilingual adults reported using overregularized forms in 20% of instances, contrasting with monolingual English speakers.

Conclusions:

  • Bilingual adults' acceptance and use of overregularizations suggest potential variation in linguistic input within bilingual communities.
  • Findings have implications for understanding the learnability of English past tense for bilingual children.
  • The study highlights considerations for speech-language pathologists working with bilingual children.