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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2002): |
English derivational suffix frequency and children's stress judgments.
Full Abstract
Considering the importance of word and stem frequency in the adult lexical processing literature, and the effect of input frequency on children's acquisition of words (Tardif, Shatz, and Naigles, 1997), it was hypothesized that children's acquisition of English morphologically conditioned stress alternations would be affected by the frequency with which children were exposed to different stress-changing suffixes (e.g., -tion, -ity, and -ic). Study 1 determined the proportional representation of suffixes in a children's literature corpus, thereby allowing the suffix variable to be established. Study 2 empirically examined the effect of suffix frequency on school-aged children's judgments of primary stress placement. Findings suggest that age and suffix frequency both play a role in children's awareness of stress placement.Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science (USA).
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Author/s: Jarmulowicz, Linda D (LD);
Affiliation: University of Memphis, School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, 807 Jefferson Avenue, TN 38105, USA. ljrmlwxz(-atsign-)memphis.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 192-204
Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12081392, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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