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M L Schnitzer1

  • 1Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan 00931.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|January 1, 1993
PubMed
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Children demonstrate superior command of Spanish verb conjugation compared to adults. This suggests linguistic knowledge relies more on analogical reasoning than rule-following, impacting language acquisition theories.

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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • The acquisition and mastery of inflectional morphology in verbal systems are crucial aspects of language development.
  • Understanding the cognitive processes underlying linguistic knowledge, such as rule-based learning versus analogical reasoning, is a key area of research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the control of Spanish verbal system's inflexional morphology in both adults and children.
  • To compare the linguistic knowledge and error patterns between adult and child language learners.

Main Methods:

  • Data collection from adult and child participants on their control of Spanish verbal inflexional morphology.
  • Analysis of participant errors to infer underlying linguistic knowledge mechanisms.

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Main Results:

  • Adults exhibited less proficient knowledge of the Spanish verbal paradigm compared to children.
  • Analysis of errors indicated a stronger reliance on analogical reasoning rather than adherence to unconscious grammatical rules.

Conclusions:

  • Linguistic knowledge, particularly in complex inflectional systems like Spanish verbs, may be better characterized as an ability for correct analogical inference.
  • Findings have implications for theoretical linguistics, specifically Government and Binding (GB) theory, and for models of first and second language acquisition.