NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Location
Canada14
Japan1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Peabody Picture Vocabulary…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 14 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yuriko Oshima-Takane – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Using a habituation paradigm with a three-switch design, the present study investigated whether 20-month-old French-learning infants use noun and verb morphosyntactic cues to learn novel words in dynamic events differentially when both the agent and the action interpretations are possible. Of particular interest was whether infants' initial…
Descriptors: Infants, Nouns, Verbs, Language Usage
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Melançon, Andréane; Shi, Rushen – Journal of Child Language, 2015
A fundamental question in language acquisition research is whether young children have abstract grammatical representations. We tested this question experimentally. French-learning 30-month-olds were first taught novel word-object pairs in the context of a gender-marked determiner (e.g., un[subscript MASC]ravole "a ravole"). Test trials…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, Infants, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Evans, Mary Ann; Saint-Aubin, Jean – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
When preschoolers listen to storybooks, are their eye movements related to their vocabulary acquisition in this context? This study addressed this question with 36 four-year-old French-speaking participants by assessing their general receptive vocabulary knowledge and knowledge of low-frequency words in 3 storybooks. These books were read verbatim…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Preschool Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Katerelos, Marina; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko – Infancy, 2011
This study was designed to examine whether infants acquiring languages that place a differential emphasis on nouns and verbs, focus their attention on motions or objects in the presence of a novel word. An infant-controlled habituation paradigm was used to teach 18- to 20-month-old English-, French-, and Japanese-speaking infants' novel words for…
Descriptors: Infants, English, French, Japanese
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shi, Rushen; Melancon, Andreane – Infancy, 2010
Recent work showed that infants recognize and store function words starting from the age of 6-8 months. Using a visual fixation procedure, the present study tested whether French-learning 14-month-olds have the knowledge of syntactic categories of determiners and pronouns, respectively, and whether they can use these function words for…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Infants, Classification
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shi, Rushen; Lepage, Melanie – Developmental Science, 2008
This study examines the role of functional morphemes in the earliest stage of lexical development. Recent research showed that prelinguistic infants can perceive functional morphemes. We inquire whether infants use frequent functors to segment potential word forms. French-learning 8-month-olds were familiarized to two utterance types: a novel noun…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Infants, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nicoladis, Elena; Rose, Alyssa; Foursha-Stevenson, Cassandra – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
Bilingual children sometimes produce constructions influenced by their other language (cross-linguistic transfer). Transfer can often be predicted by the existence of overlapping and ambiguous constructions in both languages. In this paper, we investigate whether cross-linguistic transfer occurs when overlapping constructions exist, but there are…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbs, Nouns, Transfer of Training
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chambers, Craig G.; Cooke, Hilary – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
A spoken language eye-tracking methodology was used to evaluate the effects of sentence context and proficiency on parallel language activation during spoken language comprehension. Nonnative speakers with varying proficiency levels viewed visual displays while listening to French sentences (e.g., "Marie va decrire la poule" [Marie will…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Eye Movements, Nouns
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Nadasdi, Terry – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Analyzes two variants of subject doubling in Ontario French: a non-doubled variant and a doubled variant containing a clitic agreement marker. It is proposed that the doubled variant is favored when the clitic's default features match those of the subject NP (noun phrase), while lack of matching favors the non-doubled variant.(Author/JL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Surridge, Marie E.; Lessard, Gregory – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Test results for final-year French students in Canadian universities show they have not mastered the gender of some of the most frequent French nouns. Two recommendations are to continue to seek simplification of the learning of gender and to require students to use the full range of syntactic transformations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Desrochers, Alain; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
The mnemonic keyword method was modified to help French-speaking undergraduates at a Canadian university learn the meaning and the grammatical gender of German nouns. Results bear on the encoding and retrieval of complex associations between a German noun and its grammatical gender. (TJH)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Definitions, Encoding (Psychology), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Carroll, Susanne E. – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated whether beginning adult learners, given auditory stimuli, were equally likely to represent French gender subclasses using phonological, morphosyntactic, and/or semantic representations. Data from adult English speakers learning patterned French and translation equivalent lists indicated that the construct of input for gender learning…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Auditory Stimuli, College Students
Monod, Pierre; Monod, Madeleine – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1977
For years, French language instructors in Alberta have wondered about the possibility of coordinating in a better way their students' transition from last year of secondary education to first year at the university level. At the end of a university year, errors were found in the French compositions of 34 randomly chosen students (out of 68), which…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Articulation (Education), Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Grondin, Nathalie; White, Lydia – Language Acquisition, 1996
Investigates the functional projections in second-language (L2) acquisition by examining the emergence of functional categories in the L2 acquisition of French by children. Data include the productive use of determiners, inflection, case marking, subject clitics, wh-questions, and correct negative placement. (57 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Determiners (Languages), Foreign Countries