Cohesive Anaphoric relations in French children's narratives as a function of mutual knowledge  

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Hickmann, Maya ; Kail, Michele ; Roland, Francoise

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 45 (1995), page 277-300.
Fulltext: First Language 1995 15. 277-300.pdf (1.2MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study examines how French children of 6, 9, and 11 years use referring expression for reference maintenance in narratives elicited in two situations: children and their interlocutor were looking at a picture book together (Mutual knowledge) or the interlocutor was blindfolded (no mutual knowledge). Local coreference has a strong impact on the selection of pronouns (coreferential) Ys. nominals (non-coreferential) at all ages and in both situations. However, children from 9 years on produce more pronouns in the absence of mutual knowledge and the extent to which children mark story structure varies as a function of age and situation. Regardless of situation, 6-year-olds mark boundaries across successive pictures (external structure) and episodes (internal structure) by means of nominals. Although a similar pattern can be observed at other ages in the mutual knowledge condition, it gradually disappears with increasing age in the absence of mutual knowledge. It is concluded that discourse-internal functions of referring expressions are a late development characterized by the increasing impact of core reference, which gradually overrides other factors, as children learn to rely maximally on discourse cohesive relations in the absence of mutual knowledge.

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