Jean-Pierre Jaffré et Jacques David. A Genetic Analysis of Number in French
This paper is devoted to the cognitive operations which underlie the acquisition of number in French orthography. To better understand some of the particuliarities of this linguistic category, a genetic approach is derived from the study of the problems children are confronted with, when they try to learn it. Two main aspects are analyzed: the construction of a "plural protosign" through an interface between linguistic and extralinguistic factors, and its morphosyntactic actualisation, with graphic agreements.
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