Language Bases ... Discourse Bases
Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research
When child language began to be studied in the sixties, what interested researchers most was what could be considered language per se. Holophrases were excluded as seemingly having no syntax and research work was carried out as of the two-word stage. Language development was studied up to around age seven, the age at which natural acquisition processes were considered to be contaminated by formal schooling in language.In opposition to such an attitude, this volume has ignored this heavily studied area of language development preferring to present research being carried out at the two ends of the development process that had been rejected: that of prelinguistic speech skills, at the one end, and the development of discourse at the other. This book thus begins with the physical properties in human development necessary for language to occur. It also offers studies on a child's initial equipment, i.e. intra-uterine skills and skills acquired before first words. At the other end are studies on the development of discourse, i.e. the child's acquisition of the ability not only to juxtapose ideas, but to link them into cohesive, coherent texts and to use argumentation, skills that are not fully acquired until the child is well into adolescence and nearing adulthood.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 17] 1991. vi, 342 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 July 2011
Published online on 20 July 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionGilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec | p. 1
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Speech Bases
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Phylogeny and Ontogeny of LanguagesF. Bresson | p. 11
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Prenatal FamiliarizationJ.P. Lecanuet, C. Granier-Deferre and M.C. Busnel | p. 31
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Initial Equipment for Speech PerceptionJosiane Bertoncini | p. 45
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Target-Language Influences on PrespeechB. de Boysson-Bardies | p. 57
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Prosodic Cues in Very Young Children&wp0,39;s SpeechN. Bacri | p. 73
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Basic Discourse Capacities
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Cohesion: Syntactic Organization Leading to Discourse
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Verbs as Sentence OrganizersGilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and J.P. Pille | p. 93
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Pronoun Assignment in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous SentencesJ. Seguy and Michèle Kail | p. 109
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Conjunctions: Developmental IssuesMichèle Kail and Jürgen Weissenborn | p. 125
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Children’s Production of Textual OrganizersJ-P. Bronckart and B. Schneuwly | p. 143
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The Development of Discourse Cohesion: Some Functional and Cross-Linguistic IssuesMaya Hickmann | p. 157
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Coherence: Language as it Underlies and Organizes Knowledge
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An Opaque Text as a Mobilizer of KnowledgeMarlene Dolitsky and Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec | p. 189
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The Development and Role of Narrative Schema StorytellingE. Esperet | p. 209
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Stories A Psycholinguistic and Ontogenetic Approach to the Acquisition of Narrative AbilitiesMichel Fayol | p. 229
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The Development of Argumentative DiscourseGilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and M. Valette | p. 245
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Index | p. 335
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General