LLP_W9

Inflections are:

• morphemes that convey the intonation of speech

• morphemes with lexical meaning at the ends of words

• morphemes with grammatical meaning at the ends of words

Which of the following is NOT an inflection in English?

• plural -s (several books)

• verbalizer -ize (modernize the text)

• comparative -er (taller than me)

• possessive -s (John’s book)

The “Wug Test” is an elicited production test that determines whether:

• children have developed rules for producing inflections

• children like wugs better than quirks or spowing

• children can use novel words in sentences

Forms like “goed” or “mouses” reveal that:

• children don’t pay careful attention to their caregivers’ speech

• children have developed rules for producing inflections

• children speak cutely on purpose to entertain their parents

In a speech, the speaker said “We might have talken about it before”. This makes me think that:

• his grammar is bad and he needs speech therapy

• he needs new reading glasses

• he overgeneralized due to cognitive overload

In the Dual Route Model, irregular past tense forms are:

• stored whole in memory and accessed directly from memory

• generated by analogy with phonological neighbors

• both a and b

In the Dual Route Model, regular past tense forms are:

• stored separately as root and inflection, and created “on the fly” for each use

• some forms stored whole and some stored separately depending on verb frequency

• generated by analogy with phonological neighbors

Which of the following SUPPORTS the Dual Route model?

• children start to overgeneralize irregular past at the same time as they start using -ed

• overgeneralization occurs more frequently with low frequency irregular verbs

• overgeneralization occurs in languages other than English

• all of the above

• only a and c

Which of the following is NOT CONSISTENT with the Dual Route model?

• some languages have more than one “default” inflection

• overgeneralization rates are often over 50% for some frequent irregular verbs

• overgeneralization errors occur less with verbs with more phonological friends

• all of the above

• only a and b

In the Single Route model, both regular and irregular past tense forms are:

• learned gradually through feedback in a connectionist network

• stored separately as root and inflection, and created “on the fly” for each use

• generated only by analogy with phonological neighbors