Do 11-Month-Old French Infants Process Articles?

Autor/inn/en	Halle, Pierre A.; Durand, Catherine; de Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte
Titel	Do 11-Month-Old French Infants Process Articles?
Quelle	In: Language and Speech, 51 (2008) 1-2, S. 23-44 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8309
DOI	10.1177/00238309080510010301
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Form Classes (Languages); Nouns; French; Infants; Word Recognition; Long Term Memory; Syllables; Suprasegmentals; Foreign Countries; France (Paris) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Französisch; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Worterkennung; Langzeitgedächtnis; Silbe; Ausland
Abstract	The first part of this study examined (Parisian) French-learning 11-month-old infants' recognition of the six definite and indefinite French articles: "le", "la", "les", "un", "une", and "des". The six articles were compared with pseudoarticles in the context of disyllabic or monosyllabic nouns, using the Head-turn Preference Procedure. The pseudo articles were similar to real articles in terms of phonetic composition and phonotactic probability, and real and pseudo noun phrases were alike in terms of overall prosodic contour. In three experiments, 11-month-old infants showed preference for real over pseudo articles, suggesting they have the articles' word-forms stored in long-term memory. The second part of the study evaluates several hypotheses about the role of articles in 11-month-olds infants' word recognition. Evidence from three experiments supports the view that articles help infants to recognize the following words. We propose that 11-month-olds have the capacity to parse noun phrases into their constituents, which is consistent with the more general view that function words define a syntactic skeleton that serves as a basis for parsing spoken utterances. This proposition is compared to a competing account, which argues that 11-month-olds recognize noun-phrases as whole-words. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table and 5 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10