主谓一致:加泰罗尼亚语的三个实验

IF 1.2 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Anna Gavarró, Alejandra Keidel
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本研究深入探讨了以加泰罗尼亚语为母语的儿童和婴儿的句法分析能力。我们首先以 3-6 岁儿童为研究对象,进行了两项句子-图片匹配任务。在实验 1 中,3 到 4 岁的儿童未能识别空主语句子中的单数第三人称主语,但在所有其他情况下,包括复数第三人称主语和带有明显的全 DP 主语的句子,他们的表现都超过了正常水平。这让人想起 Pérez-Leroux 在西班牙语方面的研究结果。在实验 2 中,我们采用了相同的设计,但涉及到了数字分心物,3 到 4 岁的幼儿在所有条件下的表现都超过了机会水平。实验结果显示,22 个月大的婴儿有能力解析第三人称空主语句子中的主谓一致问题,而 19 个月大的婴儿则有能力解析第三人称复数空主语。这些发现与儿童在句法一致计算方面的认知不一致。我们认为,文献中指出的主谓一致解析表现不佳的情况往往源于与任务相关的语用问题,而非核心句法延迟。如果是这样的话,那么在早期产生言语转折和晚期理解之间的假定不对称现象就会消失;相反,结果表明,在开始产生之前,匹配操作和掌握特定语言的协议属性就已经提前建立起来了。
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Subject–verb agreement: Three experiments on Catalan
This study delves into the syntactic parsing abilities of children and infants exposed to Catalan as their first language. Focusing first on ages 3 to 6, we conducted two sentence-picture matching tasks. In experiment 1, 3 to 4-year-old children failed in identifying singular third-person subjects within null-subject sentences, although they performed above chance in all other scenarios, including plural third-person subjects and sentences with overt full DP subjects. This is reminiscent of the results of Pérez-Leroux for Spanish. In experiment 2, with the same design but involving numeral distractors, children’s performance was above chance level across all conditions from age 3 to 4. Then, in experiment 3, we moved to a younger age range with the help of eye-tracking techniques. The findings revealed that infants at 22 months had the ability to parse subject–verb agreement in sentences with third-person null subjects, and at 19 months there was evidence of parsing for third-person plural null subjects. These findings are inconsistent with the perception of children grappling with syntactic agreement computation. We argue that instances of underperformance in subject–verb agreement parsing identified in the literature often stem from task-related and pragmatic issues rather than core syntactic delay. If so, the putative asymmetry between early production of verbal inflection and late comprehension disappears; rather, the results suggest early establishment of matching operations and mastery of language-specific agreement properties before production starts.
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First Language
First Language Multiple-
CiteScore
3.80
自引率
10.50%
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53
期刊介绍: First Language is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research in child language acquisition. Child language research is multidisciplinary and this is reflected in the contents of the journal: research from diverse theoretical and methodological traditions is welcome. Authors from a wide range of disciplines - including psychology, linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, neuroscience, communication, sociology and education - are regularly represented in our pages. Empirical papers range from individual case studies, through experiments, observational/ naturalistic, analyses of CHILDES corpora, to parental surveys.
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