Le Carte Blanc or La Carte Blanche? Bilingual Children's Acquisition of French Adjective Agreement

Autor/inn/en	Nicoladis, Elena; Marchak, Kristan
Titel	Le Carte Blanc or La Carte Blanche? Bilingual Children's Acquisition of French Adjective Agreement
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 61 (2011) 3, S.734-758 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00660.x
Schlagwörter	Nouns; Monolingualism; French; Second Language Learning; Bilingualism; Children; Form Classes (Languages); Linguistic Input; Pictorial Stimuli; Task Analysis; Preschool Children; Grammar; Scores; Vocabulary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Französisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Bilingualismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachbildung; Fantasieanregung; Aufgabenanalyse; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Grammatik; Wortschatz
Abstract	Because of less exposure to either language, bilingual children's language acquisition can be delayed relative to monolingual children in domains related to input frequency. This study predicted that the acquisition of gender agreement with adjectives in French would be delayed in bilingual children on a picture description task. The results showed that French-English bilingual preschoolers were less accurate with feminine noun-adjective agreement than monolinguals, a difference attributable to the differences in vocabulary scores, but not significantly less accurate with feminine determiner-adjective agreement. The bilinguals were significantly less accurate with determiner-noun agreement, a difference not attributable to vocabulary score differences. We argue that fewer input tokens lead to delayed gender agreement and fewer input types lead to delayed gender assignment. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10