Acquisition of Plural Infection Language is the main vehicle by which we know about other people's thoughts. Every time we speak we are revealing something about language. Nonetheless, learning a first language is something most children do successfully, in a matter of a few years and without the need for formal lessons. By the time a child enters elementary school, he or she is a fluently speaker. Before children become effective language users they go thorough different language acquisition stages. Within language acquisition children also develop morphological grammatical inflections. One grammatical inflection that children acquire as they are learning the language is the plural {-s} inflection. Children also develop the various phonological plural allomorphs in the process of language acquisition. In this paper I will discuss the acquisition of language, plural {-s} inflection and the development of phonological plural allomorphs.
Children's language usually develops in a systematic and sequential process.
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