Implicit Knowledge of Grammatical Gender in Preschool Children

Autor/inn/en	Belacchi, Carmen; Cubelli, Roberto
Titel	Implicit Knowledge of Grammatical Gender in Preschool Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 41 (2012) 4, S.295-310 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-011-9194-y
Schlagwörter	Animals; Speech Communication; Semantics; Form Classes (Languages); Grammar; Preschool Children; Language Processing; Italian; Role; Classification; Syntax; Pictorial Stimuli; Adults; English; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Animal; Tier; Tiere; Semantik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Grammatik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sprachverarbeitung; Italienisch; Rollen; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Fantasieanregung; English language; Englisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	The study aimed at investigating the role of nominal gender in animal categorization in preschoolers. Given the regularities characterizing gender system, at both syntactical and morphological level, Italian language is suitable to address this issue. In three experiments, participants were asked to classify pictures of animals as male or female. Half stimuli had names of feminine gender and half of masculine gender. In Experiment 1, Italian speaking adults and preschoolers classified animals according to the nominal gender. This effect was not found with English speaking participants (Experiment 2) but confirmed with 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old Italian-speaking children (Experiment 3). These results showed an implicit knowledge of grammatical gender in preschoolers, suggesting that semantic processing may be modulated by linguistic information. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10