Journal article
Processing English Compounds in the First and Second Language: The Influence of the Middle Morpheme
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Native English speakers tend to exclude regular plural inflection when producing English noun-noun compounds (e.g., rat-eater not rats-eater) while allowing irregular plural inflection within compounds (e.g., mice-eater) (Clahsen, 1995; Gordon, 1985; Hayes, Smith and Murphy, 2005; Lardiere, 1995; Murphy, 2000). Exposure to the input alone has been considered insufficient to explain this dissociation between regular and irregular plurals in compounds because naturally occurring compounds in En...
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- Journal:
- LANGUAGE LEARNING
- Volume:
- 60
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 194-220
- Publication date:
- 2010-03-01
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1467-9922
- ISSN:
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0023-8333
- Source identifiers:
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132137
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- English
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- 2010
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