L'apprentissage/enseignement de la morphologie écrite du nombre en français

In written French forms play an essential role. Numerous morphological marks have no correspondence in oral French. This is the case of plural flexions : -s for the plural of nouns and adjectives and -nt for verbs at the third person of indicative present. Earlier research showed that on the one hand the interpretation of these marks precedes their production and that this nominal flexion proceeding appears earlier and more correctly than adjectival flexion proceeding and verbal flexion (-nt). On the other hand, overgeneralizations were tracked down thanks to this research work : faultly use of flexions especially nominal flexions attributed to verbs (ils timbres). But in these investigatio…