New publication

[Claire Martinot]

Dear Childes-members:

We would like to announce the publication of

LA REFORMULATION: UN PRINCIPE UNIVERSEL D'ACQUISITION

Claire Martinot and Amr Ibrahim (Eds.)



Paris, Kime.  (392 p., Cost - 26 euros)



Acquisition of first or second language can be analyzed through the process
of reformulation that children apply when retelling a story they just heard.
By analyzing the language of retold story (lexical and grammatical
structures), one can identify at what stage the child is in the course of
his/her language acquisition.  Eleven languages that are represented in this
book (French, Italian, Rumanian, Polish, Croatian, Russian, English,
Sudanese Arabic, Palestinian Arabic, Tunisian Arabic, Gengbe from South-Togo
and French as L2) were found to share some of the acquisitional stages and
significantly differ in others.  The aim of the book is to propose a new way
of examining the process of language acquisition that offers linguistic
explanation as well as identifying stages of acquisition for complex
linguistic structures.



The book consists of 11 papers presented at the International Conference
Acquisition et Construction du sens dans une perspective interlangue
(Paris-Sorbonne, 20-21 dec. 2001.)  An introductory article and a
theoretical one, related to the 'Children's incomplete matrix reformulations
', are also included in the book.



Claire Martinot

Université René Descartes, Paris 5

UMR 8606