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Overregularization as competition

  • February 2016
DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.1119.2085
  • Conference: 17th International Morphology Meeting
  • Affiliation: Université de Montréal, Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, Institut des Sciences Cognitives UQAM
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Elena Kulinich at Université du Québec à Montréal
Elena Kulinich
Phaedra Royle at Université de Montréal
Phaedra Royle
Daniel Valois
Daniel Valois
Daniel Valois
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Morphological overregularization (OR) in child language gives rise to the coexistence of two different forms at some given period of language development. The change from irregular to regularized, and from regularized back to irregular forms is known as U-shaped development curb (Marcus et al. 1992). The phenomenon is very well known but there is still a relative lack of quantitative and cross-linguistic data in support of this, and some questions remain about how different forms are distributed across verbs and across children, what the proportion of them is found at different periods of language development and how children finally arrive to the “correct” idiosyncratic usage. We review this problem by looking at data from an elicitation task with 76 Russian-speaking children aged 3 to 4 years (M=3;4, SD=3.6) on present verb form productions. More data are needed to draw a clearer overall picture, but the evidence from Russian suggests that Blocking does not work in the same way in children and adults. More precisely, there is a period of coexistence of specific irregular and overregularized forms in children. With time overregularized forms are driven out by specific irregular forms, but the mechanisms that help children to recover from OR errors (e.g., direct or indirect negative evidence, lexicalization process) remain to be specified.
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