: Acquisition of Means for Nominal Reference in Narratives: A Functionalist and Comparative Analysis

International audienceThis paper proposes to describe the acquisition of various nominal forms by learners of French. It compares the performances in a film-retelling task of groups of 4-year-old and 7-year-old French children, with those of beginning and high intermediate adult learners of L2 French with Polish as their L1. We try to demonstrate that successful acquisition involves not only the formal aspects of the Target Language, but also the ability to use one's linguistic resources appropriately in context.Cet travail se propose d'étudier dans une perspective fonctionnaliste et comparative l'acquisition par l'enfant et l'adulte de certaines procédures nécessaires à la construction d'une narration. Il s'agit de différentes stratégies utilisées pour marquer un aspect de la cohésion textuelle, à savoir l'introduction des référents et le maintien de la référence