Regularities in the Acquisition of the English Past Tense
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Finding Structure in Time by Jeff Elman, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego Paper: Rules and Regularities in the Acquisition of the English Past Tense by Virginia Marchman, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego
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