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Table 2. Examples of verb words occurring in at least two different PMR in C’s corpus starting
1;9.3 and in G’s corpus starting1;11.15
Type of verb-word |
Forms: | |
habiller ‘to dress’ |
Produced by C starting 1;9.3 |
/a'je/ |
enlever ‘to remove’ |
/'εv/ |
/e've, al've/ |
sauter ‘to jump’ |
/i'sot, e'sot/ |
/o'te/ |
tourner ‘to turn’ |
/'tun/ |
/'tu'ne/ |
donner ‘to give’ |
/'don/ |
/e'no'ne/ |
dormir ‘to sleep’ |
/e'dor/ |
/'do'mi/ |
cacher ‘to hide’ |
/'kaʃ/ |
/'ka'ʃe/ |
accrocher ‘to hang’ |
/'kotʃ, e'kots/ |
/e'ko'tʃe/ |
regarder ‘to look’ |
/'ga, i'gat/ |
/'ga'de/ |
aller ‘to go’ |
/'va/ | |
/a'lo/ |
/a'le/ | |
enlever ‘to remove’ |
Produced by G starting 1;11.15 /e'lov/ |
/'e've, al've/ |
mettre ‘to put’ |
/'me/ |
/'mi/ |
bruler ‘to burn’ |
/a'ryl, 'bryl/ |
/'bry'le/ |
cacher ‘to hide’ |
/i'ka/ |
/'ka'ʃe/ |
chercher ‘to look for’ |
/'ʃeʃ/ |
/'ʃe'ʃe/ |
coller ‘to glue’ |
/'kol/ |
/'ko'le/ |
regarder ‘to look’ |
/e'ga/ |
/'ega'de/ |
aller ‘to go’ |
/'va/, /'vε/ |
/a'le/ |
donner ‘to give’ |
/'don/ |
/'do'ne/ |
ouvrir ‘to open’ |
/'uvr/ |
/'uvr'ir/ |
tomber ‘to fall’ |
/e'tob/ |
/'to'be/ |
have been reported for the production of a French-acquiring girl by Kilani-Schoch &
Dressler (2000). The production of PAEs during this period obtains this pattern in
words that are monosyllabic in the language (e.g., /'gry/, ‘crane’, changes from CV to
V'CV in /a'gry/). Adult language plurisyllabic words are also produced in a V'CV
iambic pattern. This is however most often obtained through a different procedure,
namely, by leaving aside the initial consonant of 'CV'CV(C) words (e.g., /'ʃa'po/, ‘hat’,
is rendered at this time as /a'po/, while before the appearance of PAEs it was produced
as /'pa'po/).
In support of this initial phonoprosodic hypothesis we find that in the first period
(between 1;8 and 1;11), PAEs are produced significantly more frequent in C’s rendi-
tions of monosyllabic than in that of plurisyllabic targets (PAEs are the only way to
obtain a V'CV pattern in monosyllabic target words), while iambic V'CV renditions of
plurisyllabic targets have either a PAE followed by a CV syllable (for example /ə'jaf/