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Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools Vol.22 115-122 July 1991.
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Children's Development of Irregular Past Tense Verb Forms

Kenneth G. Shipley 1
Mary A. Maddox 2

Joyce E. Driver 3
1 California State University, Fresno
2 Speech-Language Pathologist, County Superintendent of Schools, Fresno, CA
3 Speech-Language Pathologist, City School District, Bakersfield, CA

In Brown's (1973) classic studies of language development, he found that irregular past tense verbs developed rather early in the developmental sequence. Several other researchers have also noted this early development of irregular verb forms. However, other researchers and clinicians have suggested that irregular verbs continue developing much later into the school-age years. The purpose of this study was to gain a preliminary view of children's development of 49 irregular verbs. One hundred and twenty children between 3:0 and 9:0 were examined as they responded to a picture of the target verb with a sentence-completion task. It was found that some irregular verbs (e.g., hit) were correctly produced by the three year olds, but other irregulars (e.g., bent) were still not mastered by age 9. A preliminary order of development of the irregular verbs and possible clinical implications are offered.

KEY WORDS: language development, irregular past tenses, morphologic development


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