Previous studies on the acquisition of causative verbs have analysed the deviations noticed in children's speech as resulting from the child's overgeneralized hypothesis about the morphological configuration of causative verbs. These studies are based on one type of deviation – the use of a non-causative verb for a causative verb. In this paper, longitudinal data are presented on the development of the lexical expression of causativity by one child learning Portuguese as her first language. Not only are non-causatives used for causatives, but causatives are also used for non-causatives. The latter type of deviation provides evidence for an analysis according to which the child takes into account the syntactic structure where causative verbs occur.
Cet article a pour but de vérifier l’adéquation des idées de Saussure (1916/1970; 2002) au phénomène de l’acquisition du langage, en étudiant quelques faits concernant: a) la segmentation divergeante de la chaîne sonore, témoignage irrécusable d´une écoute diverse de la chaîne sonore; b) des innovations avec le prefixe des-; et c) la variation morphologique dans la flexion verbale. Les deux derniers faits de l’acquisition du portugais nous amènent à une revision de la notion de “overextension”, renommée par nous “transbordância”, à l’égard des idées qui se dégagent de la lecture de Saussure, tout en faisant connaître la contribution de cet auteur à l’étude de ce qui est nommé des “fautes” dans l’acquisition de la langue maternelle. Les données sont recueillies dans un Journal et dans les enregistrements hebdomadaires, à l’âge de 3,4-5 ans (“corpora” de A et J). Elles sont réprises des publications préalables sur les fautes (Figueira 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003).
Especialista italiano participou de evento comemorativo do centenário do "Curso de Linguística Geral", livro fundador da linguística moderna. Por ocasião do centenário da publicação do Cours de Linguistique Générale (1916), livro atribuído a Ferdinand de Saussure, considerado o fundador da linguística moderna, uma
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