Christine da Silva-Genest
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christine da Silva-Genest plays a role.
2024 Chapter 5. Young children’s experience of referentiality and nonreferentiality in dialogue (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 80–102 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on young children’s experience of referential and nonreferential uses of noun phrases (NPs) in everyday dialogues. Our study of a corpus of interactions between adults and children aged 1;10 to 2;6 showed that the indeterminacy and instability that might characterise… read more
2024 Engaging children in activities and interactions: What strategies do educators use in early childhood education and care? Interactions and Language Acquisition in Non-Family Settings, Masson, Caroline (ed.), pp. 95–129 | Article
In early childhood education and care (ECEC), children do not participate in the same way and to the same extent in various kinds of interactions. One of the challenges for educators is to succeed in involving every child in the proposed activities, thereby enabling them to benefit from these… read more
2023 The choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues: The influence of formal and functional factors Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 323–345 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues, and particularly on the identification of formal and functional conditions promoting the uses of personal and demonstrative pronouns. The study is based on a corpus of 22 parent-child dyads. Children are aged… read more
2021 Chapter 7. The influence of dialogue in young children’s uses of referring expressions The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 203–232 | Chapter
Twenty-four dialogues between French-speaking children aged 1;10 to 2;6 and their more competent interlocutors were analyzed from the point of view of (1) the uses of referring expressions by both children and their interlocutors, according to the attentional and discursive status of the… read more
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. 141–161 | Chapter
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
2021 Chapter 3. Young children’s uses of referring expressions The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 81–113 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the repertoire and the uses of referring expressions in natural dialogues of 28 French-speaking children, aged between 1;7 and 2;6 years old. We focus on three strong forms (nouns, strong demonstrative pronouns and strong personal pronouns) and three weak forms (clitic… read more
2018 Chapter 11. Referential features, speech genres and activity types Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners, Hickmann, Maya †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa (eds.), pp. 219–242 | Chapter
Based on a dialogic theoretical framework, this chapter explores the influence of speech genres and activities on the use of referring expressions. The study examines a corpus of 25 dialogues of French speaking children aged between 1;10 and 2;04 in various activities. Results show that referring… read more