Purpose: Research indicates that when teaching grammatical forms to children, the verbs
used to model specific grammatical inflections matter. When learning grammatical forms …

It has long been known that children may use a particular grammatical morpheme
inconsistently at early stages of acquisition. Although this has often been thought to be …

The ability to process plural marking of nouns is acquired early: at a very young age,
children are able to understand if a noun represents one item or more than one. However …

To explore the clinical potential of grammaticality judgement tasks, this study investigated
whether a Grammaticality Judgment Task (GJT) of inflectional morphology could differentiate …

Previous research has established that children with developmental language disorder
(DLD) have difficulties producing inflectional morphology, in particular, finiteness marking …

Purpose Normal-hearing (NH) children acquire plural morphemes at different rates, with the
segmental allomorphs/–s,–z/(eg, cat-s) being acquired before the syllabic allomorph …

Rapid processing of spoken language is aided by the ability to predict upcoming words
using both semantic and syntactic cues. However, although children with hearing loss (HL) …

Purpose The aim of this article was to explore how the type of allomorph (eg, past tense
buzz [d] vs. nod [əd]) influences the ability to perceive and produce grammatical morphemes …

Previous intermodal preferential looking (IPL) studies have found that children learning
English acquire knowledge of plural allomorphs incrementally. The segmental plural/-s/(eg …

speaking children use plural morphology from around the age of 2, yet often omit the syllabic
plural allomorph/-əz/until age 5 (eg, bus (es)). It is not clear if this protracted acquisition is …