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de Pontonx, Sophie; Leroy-Collombel, Marie; Morgenstern, Aliyah – First Language, 2019
Following a usage-based approach of language acquisition, the goal of this article is to make a detailed analysis of other and self-repairs targeting a French child's non-conventional productions between 1;09 and 4;0. The study's hypotheses were that (1) the mother would start by offering repairs and later in development use strategies to lead the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, French, Mothers, Young Children
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Pérez-Hernández, Lorena; Duvignau, Karine – First Language, 2016
The present study looks into the largely unexplored territory of the cognitive underpinnings of semantic approximations in child language. The analysis of a corpus of 233 semantic approximations produced by 101 monolingual French-speaking children from 1;8 to 4;2 years of age leads to a classification of a significant number of them as instances…
Descriptors: French, Monolingualism, Child Language, Figurative Language
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Sinclair, H.; Bronckart, J. P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Analysis showed that the majority of subjects applied a coherent strategy to three-word utterances presented in different word orders, and confirmed the existence of two primitive strategies. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Universals
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Mullet, Etienne; Rivet, Isabelle – Language and Communication, 1991
A study explored the ability of children to comprehend expressions of uncertainty in varying degrees (e.g., "not likely, possible, probable"). Subjects were 42 French students aged approximately 9, 12, and 15. Results, including age and gender differences, and implications for classroom communication are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Language, Classroom Communication
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Jisa, Harriet; Kern, Sophie – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Investigated the use of relative clauses in French children's narrative monologues. Narrative texts, based on a picture book without text, were collected from monolinguals age 5, 7, and 10 years and adults. Researchers coded relative constructions. Use of relative clauses in general-discourse functions preceded use in more specific narrative…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language
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Bassano, Dominique; Maillochon, Isabelle; Eme, Elsa – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Two studies investigated developmental changes, and inter-linguistic and inter-individual variations, in the expansion and composition of young French children's early lexicons. Results indicated that lexical productivity strongly increased with age, whereas lexical diversity showed little developmental progression. Inter-individual variability in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Foreign Countries
Bassano, Dominique; And Others – 1988
A study investigated how children report epistemic modality and focused on two main questions: (1) How do children reproduce modal devices that are present in the original (to-be-reported) discourse? and (2) How do children use different linguistic means of quotation--direct, indirect, or other--in this situation? Sixty monolingual French-speaking…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Epistemology
Bernicot, J. – 1989
A study designed to examine the variation that occurs in the request production of children between the ages of 6 and 7 observed the kind of requests children make, what they request, whom they ask, and how they formulate their ideas. Twenty native French-speaking children divided into two age groups (6- and 7-year-olds) were asked to complete two…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Mothers in Argentina, France, Japan, and the United States were observed interacting with their 5- and 13-month-old infants. Maternal speech was classified into expressions concerning affect and information. Mothers in all cultures used both classifications with their infants and spoke to older infants more than younger infants. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Child Language
Bassano, Dominique; And Others – 1989
This study focused on how French children aged 4, 6, and 8 years evaluate the conditions of use for modal expressions marking certainty and uncertainty in discourse. Children were shown films involving verbal interactions during which one of the protagonists produced a target utterance accusing another character of having performed a deed. Each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis