Dear Pat
"Brung" or often "brang" is very common among the littlies in Australia too, and I
once heard a
linguistics lecturer explain it as their way of transferring rules about grammar
they have deduced
from other words. For example, ring, rang, rung, and sing, sang, sung follow the
pattern and so
they assume 'bring' does too. But then, when they learn 'brought' they confuse it
with 'bought' and
there is another issue to address.
This transference is common with words like 'runned' and 'eated' and others that
have a unique past
tense as the child has worked out (without formal teaching) that the 'd' or 't'
sound on the end of
a word means that you have completed the action and so they apply it to all their
verbs.
I love listening to our kinders speak and trying to work out how they have arrived
at their
particular version of a word.
That said, and despite my loathing of "I am interviewing for a job", I often ask
who is the great
judge who says this combination of sounds is acceptable and another one is not.
Think about the
combinations that end with 'uck' for instance - 99% are okay, one is not. Says
who???
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA
T. 02 6205 7241
F. 02 6205 7242
E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
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