| Автор | KEMPE, VERA |
| Автор | BROOKS, PATRICIA J. |
| Автор | MIRONOVA, NATALIJA |
| Автор | FEDOROVA, OLGA |
| Дата выпуска | 2003 |
| dc.description | Gender agreement elicitation was used with Russian children to examine how diminutives common in Russian child-directed speech affect gender learning. Forty-six children (2;9–4;8) were shown pictures of familiar and of novel animals and asked to describe them after hearing their names, which all contained regular morphophonological cues to masculine or feminine gender. Half were presented as simplex (e.g. jozh ‘porcupine’) and half as diminutive forms (e.g. jozhik ‘porcupine-DIM’). Children produced fewer agreement errors for diminutive than for simplex nouns, indicating that the regularizing features of diminutives enhance gender categorization. The study demonstrates how features of child-directed speech can facilitate language learning. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Diminutivization supports gender acquisition in Russian childrenThis study was supported by NATO collaborative linkage grant #975293 awarded to Patricia Brooks, Olga Fedorova, and Vera Kempe. We would like to thank the children, parents, and staff at day care centres #250, 735, 859, and 2023 of the city of Moscow for their participation and support of the study. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0305000903005580 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7602 |
| Print ISSN | 0305-0009 |
| Журнал | Journal of Child Language |
| Том | 30 |
| Первая страница | 471 |
| Последняя страница | 485 |
| Аффилиация | KEMPE VERA; University of Stirling; University of Stirling |
| Аффилиация | BROOKS PATRICIA J.; University of New York |
| Аффилиация | MIRONOVA NATALIJA; Moscow State University |
| Аффилиация | FEDOROVA OLGA; Moscow State University |
| Выпуск | 2 |
