The Acquisition of English Derivational Suffixes: A Pilot Study
Children, ages six through twelve, were tested to determine when they acquired certain derivational suffixes as rule governed elements of their grammars. The suffixes tested were -y and -able. "Rule governed" was defined as the ability to manipulate these suffixes on nonsense syllables. Th...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1976-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/706 |