Language-particular or language-independent factors in acquisition? Children's comprehension of object pronouns in Dutch, French, and German  

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Weissenborn, Jurgen ; Kail, Michele ; Frederici, Angela

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 29 (1990), page 141-166.
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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/10 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Children's comprehension of direct and indirect object pronouns in Dutch, French and German was studied in order to determine the role of language-particular factors in acquisition. The pronoun systems of the three languages differ on a number of dimensions that have been assumed to influence the acquisition process: the phonological properties of pronouns (clitic vs. non-clitic); the position of the pronoun in the sentence and the phrasal category in which the pronoun occurs: prepositional ([ppPREP[NP[PRO]]]) vs non-prepositional ([NP[PRO]]). A picture-matching task was used. Three age groups, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children, were tested. The results indicate that languageparticular properties, at least in the part of the grammar investigated here, do not play the role assumed in some theories of language development, but that more abstract, language-independent properties of the pronouns, such as their function as internal verbal arguments, are relevant for acquisition. Those language-particular factors which were observed are secondary and restricted to limited domains.

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