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qroqqa commented on the word delearn
Vainikka assumes that nonfinite verbs assign genitive case to their subjects: but this raises the (unanswered) question of how children come to acquire this type of case marking (since e.g. infinitives don't allow genitive subjects in adult English), and how they later come to delearn it.
—Andrew Radford, Genitive Subjects in Child English, 1999
February 11, 2009
sionnach commented on the word delearn
Is 'delearning' different from 'unlearning'?
February 11, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word delearn
It seems to be just a sporadic variant. Google shows 'unlearn' much more common with verb forms such as 'runned', 'eated' (where a child learns an irregular past first, then learns the rule and temporarily unlearns the correct form).
February 11, 2009