First, word forms can be accessed and recognized via the mental representations of their constituent morphemes.
Thus, morphological awareness tended to progress in a clear developmental pattern in relation to spelling of morphemes indicating past tense.
Percentages were used because the spontaneous production data varied in the number of contexts for particular morphemes across the participants.
The one-year-old was not yet producing words, and the twenty-month-old was producing 2-3 morpheme utterances.
The most obvious and effective approach is simply to look up pronunciations of input words-or, perhaps, morphemes after morphological decomposition-in a dictionary.
There, the absence of a reduplicative morpheme is clear, as most of the words have only partial self-similarity, and their meanings are diverse.
One question of significance, then, lies in the extent of children's knowledge of the connection between morphemes and spelling.
On the role of spelling in morpheme recognition : experimental studies with children and adults.
