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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2002): |
The cues that children use in acquiring adjectival phrases and compound nouns: evidence from bilingual children.
Full Abstract
This study explores the cues used in acquisition of two semantically similar structures that are ordered differently in French and English:
adjectival phrases and compound nouns. One possible prediction is that children attend primarily to meaning, so they should order both structures similarly. Another is that children attend primarily to structure, so they should learn these structures independently. Two kinds of data were obtained from eight 4-year old bilinguals:
(1) spontaneous production and (2) experimental elicitation. The children were nearly perfect in their ordering of adjectival phrases, but less so in compounds. These results conform to neither prediction, leaving open the question of which cues children use in acquisition.Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science (USA).
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Author/s: Nicoladis, Elena (E);
Affiliation: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. elenan(-atsign-)ualverta.ca
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 635-48
Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12081428, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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