Resumen de La conscience syntaxique chez les préadolescents: question de méthodes
Christine Gaux, Jean-Émile Gombert
Paradigms used to test syntactic awareness are not without controversy. Some disagreements remain about the nature of syntactic knowledge tested and the level of control that they require. In the present study, participants were presented a task designed in such a way that an intentional analysis needed to be completed. Participants had to reproduce in a correct sentence, a morphemic or syntactic agrammaticality presented in another sentencial context. This replication task was compared with other tasks generally used in syntactic awareness assesment. Thus, seven syntactic tasks were proposed to 83 6th grade pre-adolescents : repetition, judgment, correction, location and 3 versions of replication. Analyses of variance, component analyses and fixed order regression controlling influence of IQ and memory span, indicated that replication tasks behaved differently from other tasks. These data provide strong support for the interest of replication tasks.
