The acquisition of the past tense

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1 The acquisition of the past tense

2 Errors of omission Errors of commission
Children’s errors Errors of omission Errors of commission buy  buyed hit  hitted bring  bringed go  goed (wented) foot  foots (feets) child(ren)  childrens

3 U-shaped development overgeneralizations correct correct

4 This is a wug. Now there is another one. There are two of them
This is a wug. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two __ .

5 This is a man who knows how to rick. He is ricking
This is a man who knows how to rick. He is ricking. He did the same thing yesterday. What did he do yesterday? Yesterday he __ .

6 Table 1. Results for the past tense (Berko 1958)
Verbs Allophones Percentage of added past tense suffix binged glinged ricked bodded ringed [d] [t] 78 77 73 33 31 16

7 Past Tense walk → walk-ed sking flink strin meek
→ skinged / skung / skang ? → flinked / flunk / flank ? → strinned / strung / strang ? → meeked / muck ? Bybee & Slobin 1982

8 Past Tense sking -{Î(k) flink -ö(Î/k) strin meek

9 Wie entsteht das Netzwerk?
Anzahl der Verbtypen Phonetische Ähnlichkeit Das Netzwerk entsteht durch die mentale Verarbeitung von Sprache im Sprachgebrauch.

10 Konnektionistisches Netzwerk
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