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Omission des déterminants : Contraintes d’alternances rythmiques ou contraintes liées aux niveaux supérieurs de la structure prosodique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Roseline Fréchette  and
Marie Labelle
Roseline Fréchette
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal
Marie Labelle
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal
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Abstract

This article focuses on whether determiner omission by two-year-old children is constrained at the level of the prosodic foot or whether it is a function of the different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. Nine French-speaking children aged 2;0 to 2;7 were asked to repeat 54 four- or five-word sentences of the form “Pronoun V NP” with three conditions: a) det + monosyllabic noun; b) det + bisyllabic noun; c) det + monosyllabic adjective + monosyllabic noun. The results show 1) more determiner omission in condition b than in a; 2) more determiner omission in c than in b. It is shown that determiner omission is not accounted for by a low-level stress-alternation constraint and that the level of prosodic structure to which the determiner is attached plays a role in determiner omission.

Résumé

Résumé

Cet article vise à déterminer si l’omission des déterminants chez des enfants de deux ans est contrainte au niveau du pied ou si elle est contrainte par les différents niveaux de la hiérarchie prosodique. Neuf enfants francophones âgés de 24 à 31 mois ont participé à une tâche de répétition de 54 phrases de quatre ou cinq mots de la forme suivante «Pronom V SN» réparties en trois conditions : a) dét + nom monosyllabique; b) dét + nom bisyllabique; c) dét + adjectif monosyllabique + nom monosyllabique. Les résultats démontrent 1) plus d’omission du déterminant dans la condition b que dans la condition a; 2) plus d’omission du déterminant en c qu’en b. Il est démontré que l’omission du déterminant ne s’explique pas par une contrainte d’alternance rythmique de bas niveau et que le niveau de la structure prosodique auquel doit s’attacher le déterminant joue un rôle dans l’omission des déterminants.

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Frenchprosodydeterminersfirst language acquisitionstressfrançaisprosodiedéterminantsacquisition du langageaccentuation
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , November 2010 , pp. 303 - 330
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