Children's productive command of grammatical gender and mutation in Welsh: An alternative to rule-based learning
Children's productive command of grammatical gender and mutation in Welsh: An alternative to rule-based learning
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儿童对威尔士语语法性别和变异的有效掌握：基于规则的学习的替代方案
DOI：
10.1177/0142723707077056
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发表时间：
2007
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影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole
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作者：
E. Thomas;Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole
本文研究了威尔士语儿童对突变的有效指挥——一组受词汇和句法环境影响的形态语音变化，影响单词的初始辅音。在威尔士语中，语法性别以突变为标志，突变和性别之间的映射是不透明的。使用完形填空式程序，实验 1 为 41/2 至 9 岁的儿童提供了遥远的性别标记背景，实验 2 和 3 为年龄相近的儿童提供了不受性别限制的突变触发背景。结果表明，儿童标记性别类别的能力通常不受其对突变系统的基本知识的限制，但发展过程是漫长而复杂的。
This paper examines Welsh-speaking children's productive command of mutation — a set of morphophonological changes, conditioned by lexical and syntactic environments, that affect the initial consonants of words. In Welsh, grammatical gender is marked by mutations, and the mapping between mutation and gender is opaque. Using a Cloze-type procedure, Experiment 1 presented children between the ages of 41/2 and 9 years with a distant gender-marked context, and Experiments 2 and 3 presented similar-aged children with triggering contexts for mutation that were not conditioned by gender. Results suggest that children's ability to mark gender categories is not limited by their underlying knowledge of the mutation system in general, but the course of development is protracted and complex.