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Lippeveld, Marie; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
Using an observational task followed by an experimental task with an Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm, we examined the effect of input on children's acquisition of class extension rules by investigating the relationship between the amount of polysemous noun-verb pairs in French-speaking 2-year-olds' input and both their spontaneous…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Nouns, Verbs, Linguistic Input
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Pirvulescu, Mihaela; Belzil, Isabelle – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
Much developmental work has been devoted to the acquisition of object clitics in French. There is a consensus that in early grammar, children omit object clitics in contexts where an adult would not. Several analyses have been put forth, among which, one proposing a close link between the omission of object clitics and the presence of past…
Descriptors: Verbs, Foreign Countries, French, Linguistic Theory