<div dir="ltr">Hi Misha,<div><br></div><div>There is an appendix in Gordon & Chafetz that lists all of the passives used by parents of the Brown kids (I can send you a copy if you need one). It looks like -en forms constitute less than about 5% just eye balling it. In terms of which verbs take -en forms, they appear to all be irregular past tense verbs (<i>broken, worn, eaten</i> etc.). Although not all irregular verbs take the -en passive, none of the irregulars seem to take the -ed passive form, so if they don't take the -en passive, then they take their past tense form for the passive participle (e.g. <i>caught</i>) or an abbreviated -en such as <i>thrown</i>, and <i>blown</i>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Peter Gordon</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Becker, Misha K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbecker@email.unc.edu" target="_blank">mbecker@email.unc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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?</div>
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