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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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- 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00555.x
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- Journal:
- LANGUAGE LEARNING
- Volume:
- 60
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 194-220
- Publication date:
- 2010-03-05
- DOI:
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1467-9922
- ISSN:
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0023-8333
- URN:
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uuid:ab7e18c6-6adf-480c-9415-f3b0958975aa
- Source identifiers:
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132137
- Local pid:
- pubs:132137
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright date:
- 2010
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Processing English Compounds in the First and Second Language: The Influence of the Middle Morpheme
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