Re: L1 learning question

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De: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Fecha: S=E1bado 26 de Septiembre de 1998 04:16
Asunto: L1 learning question


>When children learn a language like Spanish, which has multiple verb
>paradigms, do they ever confuse the paradigms?  For example, do young
>children sometimes produce forms like *habli', much as English-speaking
>children sometimes say things like *speaked?  I realize that's not quite
>the same, since that's a matter of irregular vs. regular (and the
>contrast between the correct hable' and the incorrect habli' is
>predictable based on verb class), but it's a related issue.  Also, if
>they do, are -er and -ir endings more often confused than those and -ar,
>since the -er and -ir have fewer differences, so are children more
>likely to produce a form *podimos than *hablimos?

I'm not sure how many incorrections there are but I know they happend.  I
remember a friend of my using "yo *volo" instead of "yo vuelo", and even
adults tend to say "no *cabo" instead of the very irregular "no quepo" (m=
ost
of us, with certain literacy, know there are wrong when we listen but sti=
ll
make the mistake when we talk).

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