@article{OttHoehle2011,
  author    = {Ott, Susan and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Verb inflection in German-learning children with typical and atypical language acquisition},
  series = {Journal of child language},
  volume    = {40},
  journal   = {Journal of child language},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0305-0009},
  doi       = {10.1017/S030500091200027X},
  pages     = {169 -- 192},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Previous research has shown that high phonotactic frequencies facilitate the production of regularly inflected verbs in English-learning children with specific language impairment (SLI) but not with typical development (TD). We asked whether this finding can be replicated for German, a language with a much more complex inflectional verb paradigm than English. Using an elicitation task, the production of inflected nonce verb forms (3rd person singular with - t suffix) with either high-or low-frequency subsyllables was tested in sixteen German-learning children with SLI (ages 4;1-5;1), sixteen TD-children matched for chronological age (CA) and fourteen TD-children matched for verbal age (VA) (ages 3;0-3;11). The findings revealed that children with SLI, but not CA-or VA-children, showed differential performance between the two types of verbs, producing more inflectional errors when the verb forms resulted in low-frequency subsyllables than when they resulted in high-frequency subsyllables, replicating the results from English-learning children.},
  language  = {en}
}