Champaud C, Bassano D
C.N.R.S., E.P.H.E., Université de Paris V, France.
J Child Lang. 1994 Jun;21(2):415-38. doi: 10.1017/s0305000900009338.
An experimental study examined the comprehension of sentences containing concessive connectives, considered from an argumentative-conclusive point of view, in eight- and ten-year-old French children (24 subjects in each age group). Two tasks were used: subjects had to choose between (1) opposite preceding contexts of sentences (context choice task), and (2) conclusions that could be drawn from the same sentences (conclusion choice task). Results indicated a clear developmental increase in performance. For all concessive items, except mais ('but'), results of the context choice task were better than results of the conclusion choice task. Older children gave significantly better responses for mais in the conclusion choice task. The ambivalence of the connective mais is discussed; comparisons with production and crosslinguistic data are suggested.
一项实验研究考察了八岁和十岁的法国儿童（每个年龄组24名受试者）从论证性结论角度对包含让步连接词的句子的理解。使用了两项任务：受试者必须在（1）句子之前相反的上下文（上下文选择任务），以及（2）可以从同一句子得出的结论（结论选择任务）之间进行选择。结果表明，表现有明显的发展性提高。对于所有让步项，除了mais（“但是”），上下文选择任务的结果优于结论选择任务的结果。年龄较大的儿童在结论选择任务中对mais的回答明显更好。文中讨论了连接词mais的矛盾性；建议与产出和跨语言数据进行比较。
