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Children's gradual acquisition of singular and plural ...
Davies, Benjamin Luke. - : Macquarie University, 2022
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Children's gradual acquisition of singular and plural ...
Davies, Benjamin Luke. - : Macquarie University, 2022
Abstract: By two years of age children are using singular and plural words appropriately in their speech (Brown 1973), yet it is unclear whether their early representations are adult-like. It is not known how and when children develop the understanding that a word such as cats is composed of the lexical root cat and the plural morpheme -s (i.e., cat+s). The aim of this thesis was to therefore to explore some of the factors that potentially affect young children's understanding of the marking of nominal number in English. The studies presented in chapters two and three examined children's early comprehension of singular and plural using a novel-word Intermodal Preferential Looking task (Kouider, Halberda, Wood & Carey, 2006). In chapter two, the results found that 24-month-olds had an understanding of plural morphology that was limited to the voiceless plural allomorph /-s/ (e.g., cat + /s/), which is longer in duration and more perceptually salient than the voiced allomorph /-z/ (e.g., dog + /z/). However, the ...
Keyword: Other education not elsewhere classified
URL: https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/Children_s_gradual_acquisition_of_singular_and_plural/19444394
https://dx.doi.org/10.25949/19444394
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Children's gradual acquisition of singular and plural
Davies, Benjamin Luke. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2018
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Two-year-olds’ sensitivity to inflectional plural morphology : allomorphic effects
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The iPad as a research tool for the understanding of English plurals by English, Chinese, and other L1 speaking 3-and 4-year-olds
Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Davies, Benjamin; Schembri, Tamara. - : Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016
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The iPad as a Research Tool for the Understanding of English Plurals by English, Chinese, and Other L1 Speaking 3- and 4-Year-Olds
Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Davies, Benjamin; Schembri, Tamara. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2016
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