Verb group effects in L1 and multilingual children and adults (original) (raw)

Discussion Response patterns highlight type frequency (morphological), productivity and reliability effects. Contrary to our expectations, both language groups show strengths on default patterns and sensitivity to sub-regular verbs, including those ending in /y/, which is considered non-productive (e.g., Royle, Beritognolo, & Bergeron, 2012). These data show that even though they have lesser exposure to French, MUL participants rapidly master verb conjugation patterns to the same level as those speaking French as an L1, in immersive contexts. H1 Age group effect: kindergarten < Virst grade < adults H2 Non signiVicant trend for language status: L1 = MUL H3 Partial productivity effect of Conjugation group in L1: /e/ = /i/ > /y/ > Other H4 MUL do not show stronger Conjugation group effects: /e/ = /i/ > /y/ > Other Our results are consistent with other Romance studies (e.g., Clahsen et al., 2002 for Spanish; Say & Clahsen, 2002 for Italian) that show sensitivity to sub-regular patterns in children. We provide further evidence of morphological sensitivity to productivity (/e/ and /i/ vs. /y/ and Other) and phonological consistency (/y/ vs. Other) in young children French passé composé (past perfect) Cl + AUX.pres. + past participle e.g., Methods Participants: 162 children 5;7-7;7 y (M = 6;5 y, SD = .61; 80F, 82M)-L1 French children 5;7-7;7 y (M = 6;5 y, SD = .63, n = 92; 39F, 53M)-MUL children 5;8-7;6 y (M = 6;3 y, SD = .57, n = 70; 41F, 29M) 36 adults 19-42 y (M = 27y, SD = 6.81 ; 26F, 10M) (L1: n = 25, 20F, 5M; MUL: n = 11, 6F, 5M) Schooling level:-kindergarten 5;7-6;8 y (M = 6;0, SD = .29, n = 101; 47F, 54M; L1: n = 56, MUL: n = 45)-Virst grade 6;5-7;7 y (M = 7;1, SD = .32, n = 61; 33F, 28M; L1: n = 36, MUL: n = 25) Main effect of verb group, F(3, 190) = 77.92, p < .001, η 2 = .55 /e/ = /i/ > /y/ > O Interaction of verb group x age group, F(6, 380) = 6.40, p < .001, η 2 = .09 kindergarten < Virst grade < adults Figure 1: Participant group and verb type effects on production of the passé composé.