Despite the theoretical importance of the processes of generalization to the development of morphological rules, not much is known about the basic developmental trend or the relevant processes. The present study seeks to answer the question: at what age are children able to generalize the plural to new nouns. In a six-week longitudinal study, children aged 17.5 to 28 months participated in a sp...

abstract the role of efl lecturers’ first language (l1) in the efl courses has been an ongoing debate. a monolingual approach to efl suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (fl) classroom improves learning of the target language. accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of iranian lecturers and efl learners towards using l1 as...

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This paper examines young children’s abilities to interpret new words as referring to collections. Two experiments examine English-, Spanish-, and Welsh-speaking children’s interpretations of novel nouns that could refer either to a single object or to a collection. Experiment 1 tested 53 3and 4-year-olds; Experiment 2 tested 30 2to 3-year-olds and 30 4to 5-year-olds. As early as two years of a...