Publications [#351955] of Michael Tomasello

Journal Articles

1. Behrens, H; Tomasello, M (1999). And what about the Chinese?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(6), 1014. [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/05/12)

   Abstract:
   We discuss other recent studies on the acquisition of the German plural that do not support the dual-mechanism model. The attested overgeneralizations are not by default only, nor completely random, but predictable from subregularities based on the grammatical gender and the phonology of the noun. In addition, the dual-mechanism model creates a number of problems for acquisition (theory) rather than solving existing ones.