Constructing verb paradigms in French: adult construals and emerging grammatical contrasts |
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Authors: | Eve V Clark Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Margaret Jacks Hall ?C Bldg 460, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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Abstract: | Children acquiring French at first use just one form of each verb, where the meaning identifies only the event-type. How and
when do they add additional forms, with the appropriate meanings? In this paper, we explore the information available to children
from adult reformulations of these early verb-form uses, and show how adult construals contribute to children’s learning to
distinguish between the homophonous infinitival (donner ‘give-Inf’) and participial (donné ‘give-PP’) forms, both /done/, of class 1 verbs. We argue that conversational exchanges, with the construals adults contribute,
enable children to differentiate the meanings of homophonous forms, and so begin to construct verb paradigms. |
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