Gender Attribution and Gender Agreement in 4- to 10-Year-Old French Children

Autor/inn/en	Boloh, Yves; Ibernon, Laure
Titel	Gender Attribution and Gender Agreement in 4- to 10-Year-Old French Children
Quelle	In: Cognitive Development, 25 (2010) 1, S.1-25 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2014
DOI	10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.09.011
Schlagwörter	Nouns; French; Grammar; Language Acquisition; Children; Child Language; Control Groups; Adults; Phonology; Form Classes (Languages) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Französisch; Grammatik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Child; Kind; Kinder; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Fonologie; Analytischer Sprachbau
Abstract	Grammatical gender is generally considered an early and error-free acquisition in French children. This article first examines how children cope with the gender attribution problem, "i.e.", how they determine the gender of individual nouns. We consider the plausibility and requirements of an account in which tacit phonological assignment rules are put to use to solve attribution problems and contrast it with a simple "masculine as default" strategy. Elicited production data from three experiments, involving 312 4-10-year-old French children and 40 adult controls, were found compatible with this latter scenario and to provide only scant support for the former one. Second, we argue that previous studies have overestimated French children's gender agreement abilities, and that French children's ability to make the article and the adjective agree can be assumed from age 7 onwards, but not before. (Contains 9 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10