Teaching French Final Consonants and Grammatical Gender of Inanimate Nouns
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Because most final consonants are mute in French but pronounced in English, Anglophones tend to pronounce them in French. The pronunciation of final consonants in French indicates the presence of a final e, which marks the (feminine) grammatical gender of animate nouns in French. Thus, errors in the pronunciation of final consonants are pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary mistakes which risk hindering comprehensibility. In this lesson, participants learn and apply morpho-syntactic and phonetic patterns. After listening and repeating 10 French nouns similar to English nouns (<i>bracelet</i>, <i>secret</i>…) while looking at the written words, and their corresponding pictures, they are shown pictures of the same words without the written forms to retrieve the nouns, articles, and pronunciation. For transfer, participants are given new words with the same phonetic and grammatical (gender) rules so they can apply the rules to novel words, thus demonstrating they have internalized the phonetic and the grammatical rules.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".