caa a22 4500 386359466 CHVBK 20180307111910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010771 doi S0305000900010771 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010771 The argumentative connective même in French: an experimental study in eight- to ten-year-old children [Elektronische Daten] This study examines how children understand the argumentative function of the French connective même (‘even'). Two completion tasks, related to the argumentative properties of the morpheme, were used: (1) to infer the conclusion of an ‘even' sentence, and (2) to infer the argument position. Two main factors likely to influence the comprehension were investigated: the semantic context, and the syntactic form - affirmative vs negative. The argumentative function of même was globally mastered at the age of eight, but comprehension depends on semantic context. Performances were better for negative sentences, which suggests that negation plays a facilitating role; the specific properties of the negative expression pas même/même pas (‘not even') in discourse are discussed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Bassano Dominique C.N.R.S. - Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Paris Champaud Christian C.N.R.S. - Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Paris Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 643-664 0305-0009 16:3<643 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010771 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010771 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bassano Dominique C.N.R.S. - Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Paris NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Champaud Christian C.N.R.S. - Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Paris NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 643-664 0305-0009 16:3<643 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge