Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement

Autor/inn/en	Hsin, Lisa B.; Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Barriere, Isabelle; Nazzi, Thierry; Legendre, Geraldine
Titel	Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 49 (2021) 5, S.851-868 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hsin, Lisa B.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000921000301
Schlagwörter	Spanish; Language Acquisition; Grammar; Language Variation; Mexicans; Child Development; Language Processing; Preschool Children; Age Differences; Morphemes; Correlation; Familiarity; Sentence Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spanisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Grammatik; Sprachenvielfalt; Mexikaner; Kindesentwicklung; Sprachverarbeitung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Morphem; Korrelation; Satzbau; Satzstruktur
Abstract	A surprising comprehension-production asymmetry in subject-verb (SV) agreement acquisition has been suggested in the literature, and recent research indicates that task-specific as well as language-specific features may contribute to this apparent asymmetry across languages. The present study investigates when during development children acquiring Mexican Spanish gain competence with 3rd-person SV agreement, testing production as well as comprehension in the same children aged between 3;6 and 5;7 years, and whether comprehension of SV agreement is modulated by the sentential position of the verb (i.e., medial vs. final position). Accuracy and sensitivity analyses show that comprehension performance correlates with SV agreement production abilities, and that comprehension of singular and plural third-person forms is not influenced by the sentential position of the agreement morpheme. Issues of the appropriate outcome measure and the role of structural familiarity in the development of abstract representations are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01