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Cognitive skills and Finnish language inflection
Author(s) -
LYYTINEN PAULA
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1987.tb00767.x
Subject(s) - inflection , psychology , cognition , cognitive psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , cognitive skill , task (project management) , elementary cognitive task , linguistics , neuroscience , economics , biology , paleontology , philosophy , management
Covariation of cognitive processes and mastery of inflectional forms assessed by Berko's method were studied among 2.6–4.3‐year‐old children. The erroneous inflections produced by the children were analysed in order to discover rules underlying their morphological test responses. The use of the different rules was guided by the children's age and cognitive skills. The effects of contextual task factors varied at different mastery levels of the morphological test. The results indicate the need for concomitant analysis of the interaction between the child's existing level of morphology, cognitive skills and contextual variables of the tasks.