[halshs-00444395, v2] Etude des productions langagières d'enfants âgés de 17 à 41 mois et issus

Evolution des productions langagières bimodales d’enfants âgés de 17 à 41 mois et issus de quartiers défavorisés Aurore Batista & Marie-Thérèse Le Normand. Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique des Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurosciences Langues Etrangères et Maternelles Cognitives (LPN cog) Université de Grenoble, UFR SCL Université Paris Descartes, 1180, avenue centrale 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 71, avenue Edouard Vaillant 92774 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex ABSTRACT The current study focuses on language production in young French children during a free play session with an adult. Children aged 17 to 41 months who start using speech produce a lot of gesture-word combinations. The role of those bimodal combinations has been studied for Italian and English children but we know very little about the bimodal communication of young French children. Our first goal is to analyse the verbal, gestural and bimodal language production of French children and investigate the role played by gesture-word combinations in language development. Our second goal is to observe the verbal production according to age and to an index of general syntactic use: the mean length of utterance (MLU). Results do not support the existence of a “two-word speech period” and show that age is not a good predictor of language development for children with low socio-cultural level. INTRODUCTION L’évaluation des productions enfantines De multiples études récentes ...