Prosodically-Conditioned Variability in Children's Production of French Determiners

Autor/inn/en	Demuth, Katherine; Tremblay, Annie
Titel	Prosodically-Conditioned Variability in Children's Production of French Determiners
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 35 (2008) 1, S.99-127 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000907008276
Schlagwörter	Speech Communication; Form Classes (Languages); Morphemes; Grammar; French; Language Acquisition; Child Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Morphem; Grammatik; Französisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache
Abstract	Researchers have long noted that children's grammatical morphemes are variably produced, raising questions about when and how grammatical competence is acquired. This study examined the spontaneous production of determiners by two French-speaking children aged 1 ; 5-2 ; 5. It found that determiners were produced earlier with monosyllabic words, and later with disyllabic and trisyllabic words. This suggests that French-speaking children's early determiners are prosodically licensed as part of a binary foot, with determiners appearing more consistently only once prosodic representations become more complex. This study therefore provides support for the notion that grammatical morphemes first appear in prosodically licensed contexts, suggesting that some of the early variability in morphological production is systematic and predictable. (Author).
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