The present study examines the respective roles of determiners and noun endings in four to ten-year-old French children's gender attribution choices. In the context of an elicited production task, participants were introduced with determiner-noun pairs where the gender form of the article and the probabilistic gender value of noun suffixes were discordant. Results showed that suffix-congruent choices were never above chance: they were far below chance in the case of feminine suffixes and either below or at chance in the case of masculine suffixes. Results are discussed with respect to a well-known phonological scenario for French gender acquisition and with respect to the masculine as default strategy recently put forth by Boloh and Ibernon (2010) .

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