Published in Developmental science
Prosody is the fundamental organizing principle of spoken language, carrying lexical, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic information. It, therefore, provides highly relevant input for language development. Are infants sensitive to this important aspect of spoken language early on? In this study, we asked whether infants are able to discriminate well-fo...
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Abstract These notes set forth a linguistic model reminiscent of glossematics, with four differentiated modules each dealing with variation in the system of address in Spanish according to the characteristics of each of the analyzed phenomena. The model distinguishes two main levels: content and expression. In each, the model further distinguishes ...
Published in Linguistics Vanguard
In forty child-to-child dialogs in Mandarin retrieved from CHILDES, 74.23% of the total utterances contain the phenomenon of repetition, with self-repetitions (64.85%) occurring more frequently than other-repetitions (35.15%). Based upon the distribution of the various types of repetitions in the database, this paper also discusses the structural d...
The thesis is written in Swedish. Severe congenital impairments make communication challenging. Adults’ approach is crucial, in order to enable the child to make itself heard and understood and to use "a voice of its’ own". This study addresses the following issues in relation to the child´s utterance: How do adults describe their own view of the ...
Cet article explore le potentiel argumentatif du dialogisme dans le débat parlementaire à partir d’un exemple significatif : la proposition de loi sur le délit d’entrave à l’interruption volontaire de grossesse. L’analyse se concentre sur deux orientations dialogiques : l’une vers des discours antérieurs externes au débat ; l’autre, vers le tour de...
The article considers implicatures of utterances. An implicature is information complex which is literally (verbally) unexpressed and which can be elicited as a result of extracting the meaning using background knowledge of recipient, context and situation. Formation and understanding the meaning of an utterance is the process of extracting implied...
Recent research has characterized GIFs as a means for speakers to reproduce nonlinguistic cues such as bodily actions and facial expressions in online written interaction, which is first and foremost text-based. They make it possible to translate in digital interaction what those nonlinguistic cues enable to do in face-to-face conversation: express...
Cet article traite des différents sens de kalām et ǧumla dans la tradition linguistique arabe. Il le fait de manière contrastive, en les confrontant : 1) à la distinction traditionnelle dans la grammaire occidentale entre phrase et proposition ; 2) au concept d’énoncé, introduit par la linguistique moderne et formant couple soit avec phrase, soit a...
Dans cet article les auteurs insisteront sur les modalités de la sortie de l’isolement des sujets alcooliques afin de les soutenir dans l’expérience parlée du sentiment de solitude. L’isolement correspondrait au maintien d’une jouissance débridée inhibant la dynamique psychique et plus particulièrement la capacité du sujet à énoncer une position su...
