International audienceThis study examines age-related changes in oral narrative and expository discourse of 67 french school-children aged 3-10 years who elaborate a story from a short animated film and answer to why-questions. Length of utterances, number of clauses, words, speech segments, syllables, and speech rate were analysed using ELAN as an annotation tool. Our results show that aging increases quantity and density of informational content of both narratives and explanations. Older children score significantly higher than younger children on all measures of duration and informational content. Our results also show a gradual – but not statistically significant – increase of speech rate. We discuss these results in the light of cognit...
At 8-9 years many children have still difficulties in telling coherent and causally-motivated storie...
International audienceWhen producing an explanation, the speakers are confronted with a task involvi...
In this paper, we study decentering in relation to age in narratives written by children from six to...
International audienceThis study examines age-related changes in oral narrative and expository disco...
International audienceThis paper reports on an original study designed to investigate age-related ch...
International audienceAs children’s language abilities develop, so may their use of co-speech gestur...
This study examine the progressive comprehension that children of different ages have of stories pre...
Previous studies show that children, from 5-6 years on, improve the causal and evaluative structure ...
Previous studies have shown that children produce more coherently structured and mind-oriented narra...
International audienceChildren as young as 4-5 years can produce descriptive narratives but have bee...
At 8-9 years many children have still difficulties in telling coherent and causally-motivated storie...
International audienceWhen producing an explanation, the speakers are confronted with a task involvi...
In this paper, we study decentering in relation to age in narratives written by children from six to...
International audienceThis study examines age-related changes in oral narrative and expository disco...
International audienceThis paper reports on an original study designed to investigate age-related ch...
International audienceAs children’s language abilities develop, so may their use of co-speech gestur...
This study examine the progressive comprehension that children of different ages have of stories pre...
Previous studies show that children, from 5-6 years on, improve the causal and evaluative structure ...
Previous studies have shown that children produce more coherently structured and mind-oriented narra...
International audienceChildren as young as 4-5 years can produce descriptive narratives but have bee...
At 8-9 years many children have still difficulties in telling coherent and causally-motivated storie...
International audienceWhen producing an explanation, the speakers are confronted with a task involvi...
In this paper, we study decentering in relation to age in narratives written by children from six to...