We studied the emergence of productive verb inflection in pre-school native speakers of Quebec French using a verb elicitation task. We verified whether verb conjugation group (regular vs. irregular morphology) and frequency affect ability to produce correctly inflected passé composé forms. Special attention was paid to regularization into regular (default) and sub-regular conjugations, and on irregularization patterns. Results indicate that French-speaking children are able to productively use inflectional rules at very young ages and are sensitive to verb frequency and morphological patterns, both default or sub-regular, as evidenced by differential production patterns for regular and irregular verbs.
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Dye, Cristina D., Matthew Walenski, Elizabeth L. Prado, Stewart Mostofsky, Michael T. Ullman & Mark Aronoff
2013. Children's Computation of Complex Linguistic Forms: A Study of Frequency and Imageability Effects. PLoS ONE 8:9 ► pp. e74683 ff.
Kulinich, Elena, Phaedra Royle & Daniel Valois
2019. On the inefficiency of negative feedback in Russian morphology L1 acquisition. First Language 39:5 ► pp. 547 ff.
LIPPEVELD, MARIE & YURIKO OSHIMA-TAKANE
2015. Nouns to verbs and verbs to nouns: When do children acquire class extension rules for deverbal nouns and denominal verbs?. Applied Psycholinguistics 36:3 ► pp. 559 ff.
Marquis, Alexandra, Phaedra Royle, Laura Gonnerman & Susan Rvachew
2012. La conjugaison du verbe en début de scolarisation. TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage :28
Marquis, Alexandra & Rushen Shi
2015. The Beginning of Morphological Learning: Evidence from Verb Morpheme Processing in Preverbal Infants. In Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing, ► pp. 281 ff.
Royle, Phaedra, Ariane St-Denis, Patrizia Mazzocca & Alexandra Marquis
2018. Insensitivity to verb conjugation patterns in French children with SLI. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 32:2 ► pp. 128 ff.
ROYLE, PHAEDRA & ISABELLE STINE
2013. The French noun phrase in preschool children with SLI: morphosyntactic and error analyses. Journal of Child Language 40:5 ► pp. 945 ff.
ROYLE, PHAEDRA & ELIN T. THORDARDOTTIR
2008. Elicitation of the passé composé in French preschoolers with and without specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics 29:3 ► pp. 341 ff.
ROYLE, PHAEDRA & DANIEL VALOIS
2010. Acquisition of adjectives in Quebec French as revealed by elicitation data. Journal of French Language Studies 20:3 ► pp. 313 ff.
STAVRAKAKI, STAVROULA & HARALD CLAHSEN
2009. The perfective past tense in Greek child language. Journal of Child Language 36:1 ► pp. 113 ff.
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