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Title:
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Evolution de la syntaxe et de l'ancrage énonciatif dans des narrations d'enfants de moins de six ans. Interaction langagière entre adulte, enfant et livre :The Evolution of Syntax and Deictic Involvement in the Narratives of Children under Six Years Old. Adult-Child Interaction with Children's Books
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Author:
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Emmanuelle Canut
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Degree Awarded:
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Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III
, Department of Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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2000
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Psycholinguistics
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Director(s):
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D. Lutton Jr.
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Abstract:
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Within the framework of linguistics applied to child language acquisition, the aim of this thesis is first to observe the interactional processes in which children acquire syntactic constructions, and second to establish a relation between the evolution of syntactic constructions and the evolution of the use of deictics. Narrative is approached as a discourse genre likely to foster child language development. The use of certain children's books to support the child's narrative may lead to the mastery of speech variants presenting characters of expliciteness and completeness such as the child will encounter when learning to read and write.
Three longitudinal corpora of adult-child dialogues, with books read to the child by the adult before the child's narrative, were collected, transcribed and analysed. The analysis shows that the children rely both on the texts and on adult's utterances to produce, according to their capacities of the moment, narratives organised with more and more complex syntactic constructions. While taking into account individual differences in the advance of each child's language, particularly the degree of syntactic autonomy of his utterances in relation to the adult's utterances, we have checked the hypothesis of a coincidence between the complexification of the children's narratives and their decontextualisation. This thesis allows further insight into the processes through which children learn certain aspects of discourse cohesion.
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