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van Heugten, Marieke; Shi, Rushen – Developmental Science, 2009
In gender-marking languages, the gender of the noun determines the form of the preceding article. In this study, we examined whether French-learning toddlers use gender-marking information on determiners to recognize words. In a split-screen preferential looking experiment, 25-month-olds were presented with picture pairs that referred to nouns…
Descriptors: Nouns, Toddlers, Word Recognition, French
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Marchman, Virginia A.; Martinez-Sussmann, Carmen; Dale, Philip S. – Developmental Science, 2004
The fact that early lexical and grammatical acquisition are strongly correlated has been cited as evidence against the view that the language faculty is composed of dissociable and autonomous modules (Bates & Goodman, 1997). However, previous studies have not yet eliminated the possibility that lexical-grammar associations may be attributable to…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Skills, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning