overgeneralization of -en

[Becker, Misha K]

Dear colleagues,

(apologies if this is duplicated--I tried to send this message yesterday but don't think it went through.)

I've noticed lately that my almost-3-year-old overgeneralizes the -en suffix on passive participles. For example, she has said things like "This one didn't get cutten" and "I need to be scooten" (=scooted closer to the table). And I've heard her say "putten" before. I recall reading examples of this sort in the Crain, et al. (1987) study of children's passives, but I'm wondering if anyone has specifically looked at this morphological overgeneralization. How common is it? I'm also wondering how frequent these forms are in the input (as opposed to -ed or -0 participles). Has anyone looked at this?

Thanks in advance,
Misha
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Misha Becker
Associate Professor
UNC Linguistics Department
301 Smith Building, CB#3155
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155
mbecker at email.unc.edu

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