early plural comprehension?

[Lise Menn]

For a single-child data point, you can look at Peters, A., and Menn,  
L. (1993) False starts and filler syllables: Ways to learn  
grammatical morphemes. Language  69:4 (1993). pp. 742-777. Daniel was  
still demonstrably not comprehending the plural marker at 2;2.19, but  
started to produce it (and presumably to comprehend it??) about two  
weeks later.
	Lise Menn


On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Michael Tomasello wrote:

> 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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