early plural comprehension?

[cnarayan at umich.edu]

If I'm not mistaken, Helene Deacon (now at Dalhousie) has been looking 
at infants' perception of plural markings on novel nouns at 18 months.

-chandan

Quoting Michael Tomasello <tomasello at eva.mpg.de>:

> Brian,
>
> The youngest children to add English plural -s in a production 
> experiment with novel verbs are, to my knowledge, 21-22 months (4 of 
> 10 children at least once).  I know of no preferential looking 
> experiments examining this with novel verbs.  Reference:
>
> Tomasello, M., Akhtar, N., & Dodson, K., Rekau, L. (1997). 
> Differential productivity in young children's use of nouns and verbs. 
>  Journal of Child Language, 24, 373-87.
>
> Best,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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chandan r. narayan
dept. of linguistics
university of michigan
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