The acquisition of attributive adjectives is subject to two major difficulties in French. First, adjectives express a property of a larger unit : children must be able to conceive an object as a whole and as a set of properties to use a NP with an adjective. Second, adjectives in French may occur before or after the noun. Alternation is a defining feature of the category but it is not random, and the constraints at play are numerous and preferential in nature. Also, although speakers are aware of this possibility, they tend to choose a fixed position in usage. These facts raise the question of whether the input allows children to construct the notion of attributive adjectives without a resort to innate linguistic knowledge. To answer this, ...
In French, the grammatical features of the immediate constituents of words greatly contribute to the...
The aim of this research is to study the way children acquire the referential use of nouns and prono...
Common criteria for identification of adjectives in English and French were first defined from a typ...
The acquisition of attributive adjectives is subject to two major difficulties in French. First, adj...
The acquisition of attributive adjectives is subject to two major difficulties in French. First, adj...
Acquérir l’adjectif épithète pose deux problèmes majeurs en français. D’abord, l’adjectif dénote une...
Adjectives have not always had good press among writers, as they may reflect a distorted prose. Rese...
Les adjectifs n’ont pas toujours eu bonne presse chez les grammairiens et les gens de lettre. Leur c...
Three experiments were carried out with 8-to-15-year old children to study the semantic composition ...
International audienceThis paper deals with the problematic of verbal liaison acquisition by young F...
International audienceThis paper deals with the problematic of verbal liaison acquisition by young F...
International audienceThe development of nominal constructions including a categorical liaison in pr...
International audienceThe development of nominal constructions including a categorical liaison in pr...
In this thesis I attempt to answer three questions: H1) Do children use proportionally more prenomin...
In French, the grammatical features of the immediate constituents of words greatly contribute to the...
In French, the grammatical features of the immediate constituents of words greatly contribute to the...
The aim of this research is to study the way children acquire the referential use of nouns and prono...
Common criteria for identification of adjectives in English and French were first defined from a typ...
The acquisition of attributive adjectives is subject to two major difficulties in French. First, adj...
The acquisition of attributive adjectives is subject to two major difficulties in French. First, adj...
Acquérir l’adjectif épithète pose deux problèmes majeurs en français. D’abord, l’adjectif dénote une...
Adjectives have not always had good press among writers, as they may reflect a distorted prose. Rese...
Les adjectifs n’ont pas toujours eu bonne presse chez les grammairiens et les gens de lettre. Leur c...
Three experiments were carried out with 8-to-15-year old children to study the semantic composition ...
International audienceThis paper deals with the problematic of verbal liaison acquisition by young F...
International audienceThis paper deals with the problematic of verbal liaison acquisition by young F...
International audienceThe development of nominal constructions including a categorical liaison in pr...
International audienceThe development of nominal constructions including a categorical liaison in pr...
In this thesis I attempt to answer three questions: H1) Do children use proportionally more prenomin...
In French, the grammatical features of the immediate constituents of words greatly contribute to the...
In French, the grammatical features of the immediate constituents of words greatly contribute to the...
The aim of this research is to study the way children acquire the referential use of nouns and prono...
Common criteria for identification of adjectives in English and French were first defined from a typ...