Maillart Christelle, Parisse Christophe
University of Liège, Belgium.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2008 Apr-May;22(4-5):255-8. doi: 10.1080/02699200701576868.
In a previous study, Parisse suggested that subject dislocations in French language (e.g. "la fille elle dort") could be considered as a marker of morphosyntactic development in children with normal language development. The present study aimed to develop this proposition and to confirm it with experimental data, more specifically the fact that this development would go through a four-step process. Our prediction was that children would produce forms that correspond to successive steps in the developmental process (for example, forms [1] and [2], or [2] and [3]), but not forms that were very different (for example, forms [1] and [4], or [2] and [4]). In order to test this hypothesis, a sentence repetition task was administrated to 27 children aged 4 to 5. The results confirm the presence of a developmental trend in the use of dislocation in spontaneous language. At age 4, dislocations were frequent (30%), and tended to respect the gender (stage 3 and 4). At age 5, dislocations were rare (stage 4). Previous stages (1 and 2) would be observed in younger children.
在之前的一项研究中，帕里斯指出，法语中的主语错位现象（例如“la fille elle dort”）可被视为语言发展正常的儿童形态句法发展的一个标志。本研究旨在拓展这一观点并用实验数据加以证实，更确切地说是证实这种发展会经历一个四步过程这一事实。我们的预测是，儿童会产出与发展过程中连续步骤相对应的形式（例如，形式[1]和[2]，或[2]和[3]），但不会产出差异很大的形式（例如，形式[1]和[4]，或[2]和[4]）。为了验证这一假设，对27名4至5岁的儿童进行了句子重复任务。结果证实了自发语言中错位使用存在发展趋势。4岁时，错位现象很常见（30%），且倾向于遵循性别规则（第3和第4阶段）。5岁时，错位现象很少见（第4阶段）。在更小的儿童中会观察到之前的阶段（1和2）。
