10.1184/R1/6617993.v1
Brian Macwhinney
Brian
Macwhinney
Rules, rote, and analogy in Morphological Formations by Hungarian Children
Carnegie Mellon University
1975
psychology
1975-04-01 00:00:00
Journal contribution
https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Rules_rote_and_analogy_in_Morphological_Formations_by_Hungarian_Children/6617993
This study examines the relative contributions of rote-memorization,
analogic formation and rule-operation in the production of plurals by
Hungarian children. In order to maximize analogic formations, each of
fifteen actual roots was matched to a rhyming nonsense root. The elicited
plural responses were characterized in terms of five stages of morphological
learning. The importance of rule-operation as an explanation of
word formation was evidenced by the fact that children producing responses
characteristic of a given stage did not produce responses for later stages.
The contribution of analogic formation was seen to be minimal and the
effect of rote-memorization only somewhat greater.