Des mots pour se dire: Développement de la fonction narrative chez l'enfant.

peer reviewedThe present study is based on a corpus made of spontaneous oral speech: 136 children aged from 3 to 13 have been recorded in three different environments that are favorable to the production of self-narratives. Using linguistic annotations and tried and tested text statistics methods, we have been able to show different aspects of the development of narratives and self-narratives in children speeches, including the impact of age and environment on the construction of narratives. The results we obtained are significant, and we hope we succeeded in demonstrating how relevant text statistics methods are when applied to clinical psychology