@Article{Clahsen1992,
  author   = {Clahsen, Harald and Aveledo, Fraibet and Roca, Iggy},
  journal  = {Cognition},
  title    = {Regular and irregular inflection in the acquisition of {G}erman noun plurals.},
  year     = {1992},
  number   = {3},
  pages    = {225-55},
  volume   = {45},
  abstract = {In this paper we study the acquisition of German noun plurals in relation
	to the question of how children represent regular and irregular inflection.
	Pinker and Prince (1992) have demonstrated several dissociations
	between regular and irregular inflection in the English past tense
	system. However, in English, the default status of -ed is confounded
	with its high frequency; therefore inflectional systems other than
	English past tense formation must be examined. The noun plural system
	in German is particularly interesting, because most nouns have irregular
	plurals in German and the regular (default) plural is less frequent
	than several of the irregular plurals. Thus it is unclear how a language
	learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and
	if so what form it takes. Based on longitudinal data from impaired
	and unimpaired monolingual German-speaking children, we find a striking,
	statistically significant correlation: plural affixes that are used
	in overregularizations, namely -n or -s, are left out within compounds.
	This correlation shows that even impaired children are sensitive
	to the distinction between regular and irregular morphology. We propose
	a linguistic analysis of the correlation in terms of Kiparsky's (1982,
	1985) level-ordering model plus an additional ordering condition
	on affixes: default (regular) affixes cannot serve as input to compounding
	processes.},
  keywords = {Child, Child Language, Preschool, Comparative Study, Female, Germany, Human, Language, Language Development, Language Development Disorders, Language Tests, Learning, Linguistics, Male, Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Verbal Behavior, Vocabulary, 1490323},
}

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