Peut-on parler d'anaphore chez le jeune enfant ? Le cas des pronoms de 3e personne

Anne Salazar Orvig, Rouba Hassan, Jocelyne Leber-Marin, Haydée Marcos, Aliyah Morgenstern, Jacques Parés : Young children and anaphora. The use of 3rd person pronouns in early dialogues This article présents the results of a study on the émergence of anaphora in children''s speech. Concentrating on a dialogical perspective we show that the anaphoric value of children''s first pronouns émerges earlier than is usually claimed in the literature. Previous research on language development cornes to the conclusion that cohésion is precocious, but that intradiscursive relations are mastered quite late. Our quantitative results (drawn from the analysis of one hundred and five séquences of adult-child conversations) show that 90% ofchildren's pronouns are used for second mentions of discourse objects. Pronouns appear in contexts of high discursive continuity and shared attention. Thèse linguistic units are thereforespecialized very early. Our conclusion is that children do not start with a deictic use of pronouns and use them anaphorically later on. Moreover, first anaphoric devices are based in dialogue. The unity of the text could therefore spring from the unity of the dialogical exchange.Salazar Orvig Anne, Hassan Rouba, Leber-Marin Jocelyne, Marcos Haydée, Morgenstern Aliyah, Parès Jacques. Peut-on parler d'anaphore chez le jeune enfant ? Le cas des pronoms de 3e personne. In: Langages, 40e année, n°163. 2006. Unité(s) du texte, sous la direction de Dominique Legallois. pp. 10-24