The use of anaphoric pronouns by French children in narrative: evidence from constrained text production
| Autor: | Victor Millogo |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Langage et cognition (LACO), Université de Poitiers-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Linguistics and Language Culture [SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Referent Vocabulary Language and Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Subject (grammar) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Personal pronoun 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child General Psychology Pronoun Narration Verbal Behavior 05 social sciences Subject pronoun Linguistics Focus (linguistics) Variation (linguistics) Child Preschool Female France 0305 other medical science Psychology Child Language Sentence 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language Journal of Child Language, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2005, 32 (2), pp.439-461. ⟨10.1017/S0305000905006859⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 0305-0009 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0305000905006859 |
| Popis: | This paper describes the acquisition of the 3rd person pronoun ‘il/elle’ (he, she, it) in seven to twelve-year-old French children (N=58), in written production. An experiment was conducted to examine the relationship between the use of this anaphoric pronoun and the accessibility of the memory-trace of the corresponding referent in the texts. Referential accessibility in short texts was varied according to three factors: referential distance, thematization of the agent role (first sentence subject), and discourse focus. We found that the children were sensitive to the distance factor as early as 7;0, i.e. they used fewer personal pronouns when the referential distance increased. However, children of different ages differed in their weighting of the discourse focus factor and the thematization factor: the seven-year-olds (N=18) and the eleven-year-olds (N=20) were sensitive to variation of the discourse focus but not the thematization factor, while for the nine-year-olds (N=20) it was the reverse. The main results suggest: (a) when seven and nine-year-olds use the pronoun ‘il/elle’, they do not comply with the constraints associated with the accessibility of the memory-trace of the referent; (b) memory constraints have an effect from the age of 7;0, but only when the discourse focus is maintained. It was concluded that the discourse management of the French personal pronoun ‘il/elle’ is not totally mastered at 11;0: children cannot operationally integrate the whole array of constraints implied in anaphoric management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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