Data for: Experience with Morphosyntactic Paradigms Allows Toddlers to Tacitly Anticipate Overregularized Verb Forms Months Before They Produce Them

Published: 26 June 2019| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/krdz2vdysp.1
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Megan Figueroa

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The data here is for three experiments using the Headturn preference procedure (Kemler Nelson et al., 1995). We used this procedure in the way it was originally developed – to test toddlers’ preference for language patterns that conform to their native language versus language patterns that do not conform (e.g., Jusczyk et al., 1994). The three experiments presented here asked whether 16-month-olds tacitly expect to hear forms like breaked by presenting them with overregularized verbs vs. 1) nonce verbs + –ed, 2) real English nouns + –ed, and 3) and the correct irregular counterparts. The pattern of listening preferences suggests that toddlers anticipate overregularized forms, suggesting that have a general proto-category verb, to which they expect the complete set of verb inflections to apply. We have included the average listening times for each participant across the three different experiments: 16 toddlers for Exp. 1, 16 toddlers for Exp. 2, and 18 toddlers for Exp. 3.

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Linguistics, Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Early Childhood Development

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