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Peer reviewedSaxon, Matthew; Kulcsar, Bela; Marshall, Greer; Rupra, Mandeep – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Compared the effects of negative evidence versus positive input on the acquisition of irregular past-tense verb forms. Young children from two London nursery schools participated in a within-subjects design over five weeks. Results indicated that improvements in the grammaticality of child speech were considerably greater in cases where negative…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Error Correction, Foreign Countries
