caa a22 4500 475789288 CHVBK 20180406123707.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF03173170 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF03173170 Subject-verb agreement with present and imperfect tenses: A developmental study from 2nd to 7th grade [Elektronische Daten] [Isabelle Negro, Lucile Chanquoy] In French, a verb always agrees in number with its subject. The agreement rule is regularly applied. However, in specific conditions, agreement errors occur. These errors consist in agreeing the verb with the local noun, instead of with the first occurring noun, which is the subject, when two nouns differing in number precede the verb. Currently, one of the most powerful hypotheses to explain this kind of errors suggests that subject-verb agreement errors result from a temporary overload in working memory. In this regard, a developmental study, combined with an analysis of the differences between tenses of the French indicative has been led. We hypothesized a decrease of agreement errors with children's grades and that the agreement with the imperfect tense may have a lesser cognitive cost than the agreement with the present. The objective of this work was thus to study the management of subject-verb agreement in children from 2nd to 7th grades (between the age of 7 and 12), for the present and the imperfect. The results confirmed that the imperfect is acquired more rapidly than the present. The cognitive cost of the agreement would be lower with the imperfect than with the present. These data were analyzed in the framework of the knowledge development model proposed by Anderson (1983). Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon, Portugal/ Springer Netherlands, 2000 Agreement nationallicence Development nationallicence Errors nationallicence Tenses nationallicence Writing nationallicence Negro Isabelle University of Bourgogne, Duon, France aut Chanquoy Lucile University of Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France aut European Journal of Psychology of Education Springer Netherlands 15/2(2000-06-01), 113-133 0256-2928 15:2<113 2000 15 10212 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03173170 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03173170 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Negro Isabelle University of Bourgogne, Duon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chanquoy Lucile University of Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Psychology of Education Springer Netherlands 15/2(2000-06-01), 113-133 0256-2928 15:2<113 2000 15 10212 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer