The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach
Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 28] 2021. xix, 372 pp.
Geneviève de Weck
List of John Benjamins publications for which Geneviève de Weck plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021. Chapter 8. Variations in adult use of referring expressions during storytelling in different interactional settings. The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 234–260
During the language acquisition process children experience language in different interactional settings. In terms of child-directed speech, we argue that children are exposed to different models that vary according to different factors. This chapter aims at grasping some aspects of these models,… read more | Chapter
2021. Chapter 4. Referring in dialogical narratives: A study on children’s use of nouns and pronouns. The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 116–139
In a recent overview of the literature on spontaneous and experimentally-produced speech, Allen, Hughes, and Skarabela (2015) identified many discourse-pragmatic factors that affect the use of referring expressions. In this chapter, we first assess the individual effects and the relative importance… read more | Chapter
2021. Chapter 5. Referring expressions and developmental language disorders. The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 142–161
This study investigated the relation between morphosyntactic and discourse-pragmatic features in the production of referential expressions by French-speaking children with developmental language disorders (DLD) as compared to their typically developing peers (TD). Fifteen TD children and 15… read more | Chapter
2021. Chapter 11. The acquisition of referring expressions: From formal factors to communicative experience. The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 320–345
This last chapter undertakes a general discussion of the results presented in Chapters 2 to 10. After recalling the overall distribution of referring expressions in the data of toddlers (age 1;7 to 2;6) and older children (age 3;6 to 7;5), we review the impact of formal factors (syntactic… read more | Chapter
2021. Chapter 1. A dialogical approach to the acquisition and usage of referring expressions: Theoretical challenges and methodological issues. The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 2–38
This chapter gives a general overview of the dialogical, theoretical, and methodological framework of the studies presented in the book, and the implications of that framework for understanding the acquisition of referring expressions and children’s early skills in this domain. Section 1 considers… read more | Chapter
2021. Chapter 10. The impact of speech genres on the use of referring expressions. The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 288–316
This chapter is aimed to assess the impact of speech genre on the use of referring expressions. We examined this impact in two corpora of mother-child dialogues (toddlers, ages 1;10–2;6 years and older children ages 4–7 years) via two separate studies. The first study showed that among the… read more | Chapter
2021. Chapter 9. Activities and social settings: Their roles in the use of referring expressions: Their roles in the use of referring expressions. The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 262–286
We investigated the influence of activity and social setting on the use of referring expressions in French-speaking children. Three groups were observed: 25 children ages 1;7 to 2;6 in three activities with their mother (picture-based, play, and daily routines), 15 children ages 3;9 to 7;4 in joint… read more | Chapter