THE ACQUISITION OF GENDER - WHAT SPANISH CHILDREN TELL US
THE ACQUISITION OF GENDER - WHAT SPANISH CHILDREN TELL US
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DOI：
10.1017/s0305000900011259
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发表时间：
1991-10-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
PEREZPEREIRA, M
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作者：
PEREZPEREIRA, M
本文介绍了160名4至11岁西班牙儿童的性别习得实验数据。在西班牙语中，有三种可能的线索(语义、形态和句法)，说话者可以用来确定一个名词的性别以及伴随它的其他可变因素的一致性。在实验中引入了只有一个线索的项目，两个线索的综合效果一致的项目(两者都是女性的或男性的)，以及线索冲突的项目(一个是男性的，另一个是女性的)。这种实验性的操作使得测试不同类型的相互竞争的线索的相对强度成为可能。特别是，本研究的目的是确定语言内和语言外线索的相对重要性，西班牙儿童在听到特定框架中的名词时识别该名词的性别的能力证明了这一点，并因此建立了伴随该名词的其他可变因素的一致性。采用了与Karmiloff-Smith(1979)类似的方法。研究结果(与其他语言的研究结果相比较)支持了儿童对句法和语音学(语言内)信息的关注远远超过对语义(语言外)信息的关注的理论观点。
Data from an experiment on gender acquisition with 160 Spanish children from four to eleven years of age are presented in this paper. In Spanish there are three possible clues (semantic, morphophonological and syntactic), that speakers can use to determine the gender of a noun and the agreement of other variable elements accompanying it. Items where only one of the clues was present, items where there was a combined effect of two of them in agreement (both were feminine or masculine), and items where clues were in conflict (one masculine and the other feminine) were introduced in the experiment. This experimental manipulation made it possible to test the relative strength of the different types of competing clues. In particular, the aim of the present study was to determine the relative importance of intralinguistic and extralinguistic clues, as evidenced by the ability of Spanish children to recognize the gender of a noun upon hearing it in a particular frame, and consequently, to establish the agreement of other variable elements accompanying it. A procedure similar to that used by Karmiloff-Smith (1979).was employed. The results (which are compared with those obtained in other languages) give support to the theoretical view that children pay far more attention to syntactic and morphophonological (intralinguistic) information than to semantic (extralinguistic) information.