Noun grammaticalization and determiner use in French children's speech: A gradual development with prosodic and lexical influences

ABSTRACT This study investigates when and how French-learning children acquire the main grammatical constraint on the noun category, i.e. the obligatory use of a preceding determiner. Spontaneous speech samples coming from the corpora of twenty children in each of three age groups, 1 ; 8, 2 ; 6, 3 ;... View More