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Patterns of pronoun case error.

M Rispoli1

  • 1Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-0102, USA. rispoli@asu.edu

Journal of Child Language
|March 30, 1999
PubMed
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Children’s pronoun case errors reveal patterns influenced by pronoun paradigm composition. Feminine pronouns like "her" show higher error rates, indicating specific linguistic influences on early language acquisition.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental psycholinguistics
  • Child language acquisition
  • Linguistic typology

Background:

  • Pronoun case errors are common in early child language.
  • Understanding factors influencing these errors is crucial for developmental linguistics.
  • Previous research has not fully explored paradigm composition's role.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if pronoun paradigm composition affects the rate and patterns of case errors.
  • To identify specific error types and their frequency in young children.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal recording of 29 children (aged 2;6–4;0) during naturalistic interactions.
  • Analysis of spontaneous speech for pronoun case error types and frequencies.
  • Focus on errors related to nominative, objective, and possessive cases.

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Main Results:

  • Significant overextension of 'her' for 'she' compared to 'him' for 'he' and 'them' for 'they'.
  • Evidence of a 'double-cell' effect increasing errors in feminine pronouns.
  • Nominative overextensions (e.g., 'he' for 'him') were inversely related to objective-for-nominative errors (e.g., 'him' for 'he').

Conclusions:

  • Pronoun paradigm composition significantly influences the patterns and rates of case errors in children.
  • The structure of pronoun paradigms, particularly the 'double-cell' effect in feminine pronouns, impacts acquisition.
  • Findings contribute to understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying grammatical development.