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And what about the Chinese?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Heike Behrens  and
Michael Tomasello
Heike Behrens
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germanybehrens@eva.mpg.detomas@eva.mpg.de www.eva.mpg.de/psycho.html
Michael Tomasello
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germanybehrens@eva.mpg.detomas@eva.mpg.de www.eva.mpg.de/psycho.html
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Abstract

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We discuss other recent studies on the acquisition of the German plural that do not support the dual-mechanism model. The attested overgeneralizations are not by default only, nor completely random, but predictable from subregularities based on the grammatical gender and the phonology of the noun. In addition, the dual-mechanism model creates a number of problems for acquisition (theory) rather than solving existing ones.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 1014
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press