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It was a real pleasure however to watch my objections to pinkers argument fall apart as i read the rest of the book

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Some the regulars need only be stored in root form e

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Other verbs the irregulars however do not follow the rules all of their forms must be stored in our lexical memory e

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Whoever would think that an entire book could be written on the subject of verbs regular and irregular

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Pinker then explains his theory of the blocking principle which is when children need to listen to pasttense irregular verbs being said in order for them to register in their minds that certain words are irregular and you cannot just add –ed to the ending

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Also he adds that a parent correcting their child when they use an ungrammatical word is ineffective

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He demonstrates how damage in different parts of the brain could affect different parts of speech for example more damage could be done to the mental grammar than the mental dictionary