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Direct linkHavron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Fiévet, Anne-Caroline; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne – Language Learning, 2021
A previous study has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. In the current study, we investigated whether children could use this mechanism to disambiguate words whose interpretation as a noun or a verb is ambiguous. We tested 2- to 4-year-old…
Descriptors: Syntax, Prediction, Linguistic Input, Inferences
Pérez-Hernández, Lorena; Duvignau, Karine – First Language, 2016
The present study looks into the largely unexplored territory of the cognitive underpinnings of semantic approximations in child language. The analysis of a corpus of 233 semantic approximations produced by 101 monolingual French-speaking children from 1;8 to 4;2 years of age leads to a classification of a significant number of them as instances…
Descriptors: French, Monolingualism, Child Language, Figurative Language
Peeters, David; Runnqvist, Elin; Bertrand, Daisy; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
We examined language-switching effects in French-English bilinguals using a paradigm where pictures are always named in the same language (either French or English) within a block of trials, and on each trial, the picture is preceded by a printed word from the same language or from the other language. Participants had to either make a language…
Descriptors: French, English, Bilingualism, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedCarruthers, J. – Journal of French Language Studies, 1994
Investigates the double compound that is a feature of the regional French of the langue d'oc and franco-provencal areas. Analysis suggests that, in addition to the temporal and aspectual properties traditionally attributed to this form, the expressive properties of the surcompose regional are central to any description of its function in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French, Language Role
Wolff, Jared M. – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
An American studying for his master's degree in French in France reflects on the experience of advanced second-language learning. The discussion focuses on the stage at which interaction with others replaces formulation of sentences as the primary task and on understanding the power of word choice. (MSE)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Graduate Students, Interpersonal Communication
Download full textLaberge, Julie, Ed.; Vezina, Robert, Ed. – 1996
The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th…
Descriptors: Advertising, African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism
Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics
