Chapter published in:
The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approachEdited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 28] 2021
► pp. 142–161
Chapter 5Referring expressions and developmental language
disorders
Stefano Rezzonico | Université de Montréal
Mélanie Bernasconi | Université de Neuchâtel
Geneviève de Weck | Université de Neuchâtel
Christine da Silva-Genest | Université de Lorraine
Stéphane Jullien | Université de Neuchâtel
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 children
with DLD, age 4;6 to 7;5 were asked to tell a picture-book story
with their mother. The type of referring expression, the position in
the referential chain, and the syntactic function were coded. Both
groups of children were sensitive to discourse and syntax. Children
with DLD differed from their peers in the use of object clitic
pronouns in subsequent mentions, the proportion of nouns produced
without a determiner, and null subjects. Null subjects only appeared
in a particular discursive and pragmatic context.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Method
- 2.1Participants
- 2.2Procedure
- 2.3Coding
- Type of referring expressions
- Position in the referential chain
- Syntactic function
- 3.Results
- 3.1Discursive and syntactic effects on the use of clitic pronouns
- 3.2Effects of the position in the referential chain on nouns without a determiner, and on null subjects
- 4.Discussion
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
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Published online: 16 June 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.28.05rez
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.28.05rez
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