“[. . . M]any five-year-olds entering kindergarten will still be mastering morphological rules, a typical feature of emergent speech. They will say, ‘I goed to my friend’s house yesterday.’ This grammatically incorrect utterance actually employs a sophisticated, though unconscious, understanding of grammar. The child knows that the way to form the past tense of most English verbs is to add the –ed suffix. This is an application of what [Noam] Chomsky calls Universal Grammar, enabled by the Language Acquisition Device. The child has observed, verified, and used a rule of English grammar, which is incorrect in this case not because the child failed to observe the rule, but because the verb fails to follow the rule.”
From Kaplan’s CSET preparation guide (Passing Score Guaranteed!), Third Edition, by C. Roebuck Reed, Lee Wherry Brainerd, and Rodney Lee. Page 8, emphasis added.
Amanuensis –noun. A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
