| Titre | Énoncés enfantins et reformulations adultes dans l'acquisition du langage | |
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| Auteur | Eve Vivienne Clark, Michelle Marie Chouinard | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 140, décembre 2000 Acquisition et reformulation, sous la direction de Claire Martinot | |
| Page | 9-23 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The present study presents a preliminary report from a larger project examining the role of adult reformulations of children's utterances. Adult reformulations appear to serve two roles simultaneously in adult-child conversations: they provide a means whereby adult speakers can check up on what a child meant by what he said, and they offer a conventional way of expressing what the child appeared to have meant on each occasion. Analysis of two corpora, one French and one English, showed that adults are more likely to reformulate erroneous child utterances than conventional, grammatical ones, and that they produce many more reformulations when the children are younger and in fact producing a higher proportion of errors. Evidence that children attend to and make use of adult reformulations can be adduced from their acceptances and rejections of reformulations. While children tacitly accept most adult reformulations as next turns in the conversation, they also offer explicit acceptances, with overt uptake in their own next turns, and explicit rejections, where the adult has misunderstood what the child was trying to say. This suggests that adult reformulations provide an essential ingredient in the process of acquisition. The contrast between child and adult forms offers children data relevant to changing their own internal representations in memory, and so moving the forms of their emerging language ever closer to the patterns of adult usage in the community around them. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lgge_0458-726x_2000_num_34_140_2388 |
