The acquisition of accusative object clitics by IA children from China: Evidence of early age effects?

The present study compared the performance of twenty-seven French-speaking internationally adopted (IA) children from China to that of twenty-seven monolingual non-adopted French-speaking children (CTL) matched for age, gender, and socioeconomic status on a Clitic Elicitation task. The IA children o...

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Published in:Journal of child language 2015-01, Vol.42 (1), p.196-209
Main Authors: DELCENSERIE, AUDREY, GENESEE, FRED
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adoption
Age effects
Asian people
Brief Research Reports
Child
Child Language
Children
Children & youth
China
Clitics
Comparative Analysis
Educational Environment
Female
Foreign Countries
Form Classes (Languages)
France
French
French language
Gender Differences
Grammatical case
Humans
Language Acquisition
Language Disorders - classification
Language Disorders - etiology
Language Tests
Monolingualism
Morphology (Languages)
Morphosyntax
Socioeconomic Status
Standardized Tests
Syntax
Task Analysis
Verbal Behavior
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Summary:The present study compared the performance of twenty-seven French-speaking internationally adopted (IA) children from China to that of twenty-seven monolingual non-adopted French-speaking children (CTL) matched for age, gender, and socioeconomic status on a Clitic Elicitation task. The IA children omitted significantly more accusative object clitics and made significantly more agreement errors using clitics than the CTL children. No other significant differences were found between the groups. The findings suggest that the adoptees may experience difficulties in morphosyntactic development possibly as a result of their delayed exposure to the adopted language.
ISSN:0305-0009
1469-7602
DOI:10.1017/S0305000913000500