WorksheetsLLP_W9
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 4mins
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
Which of the following SUPPORTS the Single Route model?
the system predicts that overgeneralization is triggered by the number of verbs known
the system cannot deal with a ‘minority’ default that is not the most frequent inflection
the system cannot deal with homophones like break~broke vs. brake~braked
The Tolerance Principle states that children overgeneralize when:
their ratio of regular to irregular forms reaches a tipping point
they know more frequent forms more than infrequent forms
they have a small vocabulary of verbs
