[parislinguists] séminaire, LPE, Leticia Maria Sicuro Correa

[Marlies van der Velde]

Bonjour,

Lundi prochain (lundi 2 mai) Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa du Laboratório de Psicolingüística e Aquisição da Linguagem (LAPAL) Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) fera un séminaire intitulé:

On the processing of gender and number agreement in early language acquisition

Lieu:    Salle du Conseil (rdc) à l'Institut de Psychologie - Boulogne, Centre Henri Piéron à Boulogne-            Billancourt

Heure:    11h - 12h30

Adresse:    71, Av Edouard Vaillant - 92774  Boulogne-Billancourt 
Métro:    Marcel Sembat 

Résumé:
The task of acquiring a language requires an early developing processing ability of extracting grammatically relevant information from functional items such as determiners and affixes. In Romance languages, in particular, determiners concentrate information pertaining to grammatical gender and number as they morphologically express agreement relations. In this talk, the results of a series of experiments conducted with children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese are presented. They aimed at verifying (i) 2-year olds´ ability to rely on number inflection in the identification of novel objects named by pseudo-nouns; (ii) the effect of gender/number mismatch between determiner and noun in the conduction of a picture- identification task by 2 and 3 year olds; (iii) the effect of morphophonological uncongruence between gender and noun- endings in the acquisition of novel nouns in an elicited production task conducted with children from 2 - 4 years of age. The results on the basis of the picture identification tasks suggest an early ability to conduct syntactic agreement and an early sensitivity to language specific values of parameters pertaining to gender and number. Elicited production errors suggest that gender uncongruence affects most the post- syntactic phonological encoding of a nominal phrase than the lexical representation of the gender of a novel word, suggesting that priority is given to the information conveyed by the determiner when novel nouns are acquired.



Marlies van der Velde
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