Children's overregularization of English plurals: a quantitative analysis.
Children's overregularization of English plurals: a quantitative analysis.
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儿童对英语复数的过度规范化：定量分析。
DOI：
10.1017/s0305000900009879
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发表时间：
1995
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Marcus,GF
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作者：
Marcus,GF
本文对儿童名词复数过度规范化（foots、mans）进行了定量研究，以对最近的联结主义和符号语言模型进行比较。对 CHILDES 数据库（MacWhinney & Snow，1985，1990）中 10 名英语儿童（1;3 至 5;2）的言语进行了分析。名词过度正则化的比率较低，平均值= 8·5%，这表明儿童更喜欢正确的形式而不是过度正则化的形式。名词过度规则化的比率与过去时态过度规则化的比率没有显着差异，并且名词复数（如动词过去时态）遵循 U 形发展曲线，其中正确的不规则形式先于第一个过度规则化形式。这些事实表明，复数和过去时的过度规则化是由类似的潜在过程引起的。结果对联结主义模型提出了挑战，但与 Marcus 等人（1992）的阻塞和检索失败模型一致，在该模型中，常规词由默认规则生成，而不规则词则从词典中检索。
This paper brings a quantitative study of children's noun plural overregularizations (foots, mans) to bear on recent comparisons of connectionist and symbolic models of language. The speech of 10 English-speaking children (aged 1;3 to 5;2) from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney & Snow, 1985, 1990) were analysed. The rate of noun overregularization is low, mean = 8·5%, demonstrating that children prefer correct to overregularized forms. Rates of noun overregularization are not significantly different from their rates of past tense overregularization, and noun plurals, like verb past tenses, follow a U-shaped developmental curve in which correct irregulars precede the first overregularized forms. These facts suggest that plural and past tense overregularizations are caused by similar underlying processes. The results pose challenges to connectionist models, but are consistent with Marcus et al.'s (1992) blocking-and-retrieval-failure model in which regulars are generated by a default rule while irregulars are retrieved from the lexicon.