Talk:Kick/@comment-5433364-20121027215453

For literature comprehension we have to do an essay about childhood linguistic development and the usage of grammar. You wouldn't believe the loads of research I had to do on this subjest.. Here's what I have so far:

Grammatical errors like bleeded or singed have long epitomized the innocence and freshness of children's minds. The errors are acts of creation in which children life a pattern from their brief experience and apply it with the impeccable logic to new words, unaware that the adult world treat them as arbitrary exceptions.

Children's errors with irregular verbs have also been prominent in debates on the nature of language and the mind. Nuerologist Eric Lenneberg pointed out errors when he and linguist Noam Chomsky first argued that language was indeed innate. Physcology textbooks cit the errors to rhapsodize that children are lovers of cognitive tidiness and simplicity in language usage; researchers who study learning cruves in adults cite the errors as a pardigm case of the human habit of overgeneralizing certain rules to exceptional cases.

Overgeneralization error are a symptom of open-ended productivity of language, which children indulge in as soon as they begin to put words together. At around eighteen months children start to utter microsentences like "See baby" or "More cereal." Some are simply telegraphic renditions of their parents' speech, but many are original proudctions, such as "More outside" or "Allgone sticky!". By two years of age, children produce longer and more complicated sentences, and begin to supple grammatical morphemes such as -ing, -ed, -s, and the auxiliaries. Sometime between the end of the second year to the end of the third year, children begin to overgeneralize -ed to irregular verbs. WHOO! Now I just have like two more pages to go... Whoop whoop (-_-)

What did ya think of my essay though? :P