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ERIC Number: EJ1343704
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Sep
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0009
EISSN: EISSN-1469-7602
Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement
Hsin, Lisa B.; Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Barriere, Isabelle; Nazzi, Thierry; Legendre, Geraldine
Journal of Child Language, v49 n5 p851-868 Sep 2021
A surprising comprehension-production asymmetry in subject-verb (SV) agreement acquisition has been suggested in the literature, and recent research indicates that task-specific as well as language-specific features may contribute to this apparent asymmetry across languages. The present study investigates when during development children acquiring Mexican Spanish gain competence with 3rd-person SV agreement, testing production as well as comprehension in the same children aged between 3;6 and 5;7 years, and whether comprehension of SV agreement is modulated by the sentential position of the verb (i.e., medial vs. final position). Accuracy and sensitivity analyses show that comprehension performance correlates with SV agreement production abilities, and that comprehension of singular and plural third-person forms is not influenced by the sentential position of the agreement morpheme. Issues of the appropriate outcome measure and the role of structural familiarity in the development of abstract representations are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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