caa a22 4500 386359636 CHVBK 20180307111911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010709 doi S0305000900010709 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010709 Limits on negative information in language input [Elektronische Daten] Hirsh-Pasek, Treiman & Schneiderman (1984).and Demetras, Post & Snow (1986).have recently suggested that certain types of parental repetitions and clarification questions may provide children with subtle cues to their grammatical errors. We further investigated this possibility by examining parental responses to inflectional over-regularizations and wh-question auxiliary-verb omission errors in the sets of transcripts from Adam, Eve and Sarah (Brown 1973). These errors were chosen because they are exemplars of overgeneralization, the type of mistake for which negative information is, in theory, most critically needed. Expansions and Clarification Questions occurred more often following ill-formed utterances in Adam's and Eve's input, but not in Sarah's. However, these corrective responses formed only a small proportion of all adult responses following Adam's and Eve's grammatical errors. Moreover, corrective responses appear to drop out of children's input while they continue to make overgeneralization errors. Whereas negative feedback may occasionally be available, in the light of these findings the contention that language input generally incorporates negative information appears to be unfounded. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Morgan James L. University of Minnesota Travis Lisa L. University of Minnesota Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 531-552 0305-0009 16:3<531 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010709 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010709 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Morgan James L. University of Minnesota NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Travis Lisa L. University of Minnesota NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 531-552 0305-0009 16:3<531 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge