| Comprehension of infrequent subject-verb agreement forms: evidence from French-learning children. | |
| | |
MedLine Citation:
|
PMID: 21077869 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
|
Two comprehension experiments were conducted to investigate whether young French-learning children (N = 76) are able to use a single number cue in subject-verb agreement contexts and match a visually dynamic scene with a corresponding verbal stimulus. Results from both preferential looking and pointing demonstrated significant comprehension in 30-month-olds with no preference for either singular or plural. These results challenge previous claims made on the basis of English and Spanish that comprehension of subject-verb agreement expressed as a bound morpheme is late, around 5 years of age (V. A. Johnson, J. G. de Villiers, & H. N. Seymour, 2005; A.-T. Pérez-Leroux, 2005). Properties of the adult input were also analyzed. Possible implications for theories of syntactic acquisition are discussed. |
| | |
Authors:
|
Géraldine Legendre; Isabelle Barrière; Louise Goyet; Thierry Nazzi |
Related Documents
:
|
18845699 - Long-term outcome of the lidcombe program for early stuttering intervention. 19156019 - A cochrane review of treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. 15766849 - Is there an effect of dysphonic teachers' voices on children's processing of spoken lan... 2008079 - A comparison of young stutterers' fluent versus stuttered utterances on measures of len... 11385279 - The influence of acoustic and perceptual factors on perceived hypernasality in the vowel. 19340659 - The use of electropalatography (epg) in the assessment and treatment of motor speech di... 19749009 - Multiplex molecular detection of respiratory pathogens in children with asthma exacerba... 7410739 - Normative data on the missouri children's picture series and the missouri children's be... 21929989 - Use of a mild traumatic brain injury guideline to reduce inpatient hospital imaging and... |
Publication Detail:
|
Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
|
Title: Child development Volume: 81 ISSN: 1467-8624 ISO Abbreviation: Child Dev Publication Date: 2010 Nov-Dec |
Date Detail:
|
Created Date: 2010-11-16 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
|
Nlm Unique ID: 0372725 Medline TA: Child Dev Country: United States |
Other Details:
|
Languages: eng Pagination: 1859-75 Citation Subset: IM |
Copyright Information:
|
© 2010 The Authors. Child Development © 2010 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. |
Affiliation:
|
Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. legendre@jhu.edu |
Export Citation:
|
APA/MLA Format Download EndNote Download BibTex |
| MeSH Terms | |
Descriptor/Qualifier:
|
|
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Previous Document: Movement planning reflects skill level and age changes in toddlers.
Next Document: Reading minds: the relation between children's mental state knowledge and their metaknowledge about ...