Learning to Liaise and Elide "Comme il Faut": Evidence from Bilingual Children

Autor/inn/en	Nicoladis, Elena; Paradis, Johanne
Titel	Learning to Liaise and Elide "Comme il Faut": Evidence from Bilingual Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 38 (2011) 4, S.701-730 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000910000231
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Constructivism (Learning); Cues; Speech Communication; Vowels; Preschool Children; French; Bilingualism; Phonology; Error Patterns; Language Acquisition; Correlation; Vocabulary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Stichwort; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Französisch; Bilingualismus; Fonologie; Fehlertyp; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Korrelation; Wortschatz
Abstract	Liaison and elision in French are phonological phenomena that apply across word boundaries. French-speaking children make errors in contexts where liaison/elision typically occurs in adult speech. In this study, we asked if acquisition of French liaison/elision can be explained in a constructivist framework. We tested if children's liaison/elision was sensitive to co-occurrence and meaning. We expected children's use of liaison/elision to correlate with their experience with French (estimated by vocabulary). Thirty-one French-speaking children (twenty-five bilingual) between three and five years old produced familiar vowel-initial words, following four words: (1) "un," (2) "deux," (3) "un petit" and (4) "beaucoup de." The children with smaller French vocabularies produced many vowel-initial words and some consonant-initial chunks. The children with larger French vocabularies produced liaison/elision correctly across several frames while associating a number interpretation with liaised consonants. These results suggest that children use a variety of cues to construct the appropriate use of liaison/elision. (As Provided).
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