DO MORPHEMES MATURE? THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE MATURATION AND LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS1
作者:
Laura K. Heilenman,
期刊:
Language Learning
(WILEY Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 31,
issue 1
页码: 51-65
ISSN:0023-8333
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-1770.1981.tb01372.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
In order to clarify the relationship between cognitive development and linguistic development, French language comprehension tests originally administered to children learning French as a second language (Tremaine 1975) were given to intermediate‐level university students of French as a foreign language. Although there were similarities between the two groups' performances, the general finding was that a certain level of cognitive maturation was related to successful performance on items involving semantic‐syntactic relationships. Items involving inflectional/morphological distinctions, however, did not follow this pattern, and it is suggested that the acquisition of morphology may be more a function of specificexperience with a language than of level of cognitive matur
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