KU Leuven, Belgium.
University of Lille, France.
J Child Lang. 2021 Sep;48(5):1023-1047. doi: 10.1017/S0305000920000513. Epub 2020 Nov 4.
The aim of the present research is to investigate the development of left and right dislocation in child French through a corpus study of three children until age 2;7 from the corpus of Lyon (Demuth & Tremblay, 2008). We extracted a total of 704 dislocations and analysed their syntactic properties. We show that (i) right dislocations are more frequent than left dislocations and (ii) left dislocations are significantly more complete than right dislocations (fewer omissions of verbs or pronouns). We compare these results to the hypothesis of Freudenthal, Pine, Jones & Gobet (2015, 2016) according to which some properties of child language can be explained by a learning mechanism from the right edge of the sentences from the input. We will show that this hypothesis can explain the general trend found in our data, but it is not sufficient to account for the entire development of dislocation in French.
本研究旨在通过对里昂语料库（Demuth & Tremblay, 2008）中三个孩子的研究，调查儿童法语中左右语序的发展。我们共提取了 704 个语序，并分析了它们的句法特征。结果表明：（i）右向语序比左向语序更常见；（ii）左向语序比右向语序更完整（动词和代词的省略更少）。我们将这些结果与 Freudenthal、Pine、Jones 和 Gobet（2015、2016）的假设进行了比较，他们认为可以通过从输入句子的右侧学习机制来解释儿童语言的某些特性。我们将表明，这一假设可以解释我们数据中发现的总体趋势，但不足以解释法语中语序的整个发展过程。
