Re: Envoi d'un message : New publication pufc

[Claire Martinot]

Dear Childes-members, I am happy to announce the publication of 'Comment 
parlent les enfants de 6 ans ?'



How do children speak at the age of 6 ?


For a language acquisition linguistics



Claire Martinot

cmartinot at free.fr



Collection Orthophonie et Logopédie, pufc, 2005

ISBN : 2 – 84627 – 087 – 2

Prix : 15 euros



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Why is it that sentences, produced by children aged 6 -7 are generally 
conforming with the rules of the target language ─ French in our case, thus 
allowing to contend that children acquire language skills at this age? At 
the same time, any French-speaker adult always easily identifies these 
sentences as being produced by children about 6-year old? Does this imply 
that language acquisition has not being completed? These are the questions 
this book tries to answer.



The author also supports the idea that systematic description of sentences 
produced by children of a given age group is absolutely necessary. This is 
especially true when trying to accurately characterize the language produced 
by these children as it relates with the stage of language acquisition i.e. 
anterior or posterior. This book aims at presenting a first set of results 
concerning the language proficiency of 6-7-year old children when they are 
producing sentences linking them together either by coordination or by 
subordination.







Claire MARTINOT is a senior lecturer at René Descartes university, Paris 5, 
and is associated to the UMR 8606, a laboratory of Children’s language 
acquisition and language pathology. Since 2003, she is coordinating an 
international research project on late language acquisition (4-10-year old 
children) involving 12 mother languages and led in various French-speaking 
areas. The main objective of this project consists in showing that all 
children acquire their mother’s tongue through particular reformulation 
procedures that children apply to sentences kept in mind and activated when 
they try to express what they want to tell. These reformulation procedures 
correspond to a tentative to produce or reproduce the sense expressed in an 
anterior production without pretending any semantic equivalence between the 
source sentence and its reproduction. The goal of this study consists to 
propose a new explanatory paradigm to the process of mother’s language 
acquisition which is based both on non generative transformational 
linguistic theory and on a language acquisition theory using a redefined 
concept of the Reformulation. A first stage of this research work was 
reported in issue 140 of de review Langages : Acquisition et Reformulation 
(Larousse, 2000) and was further published in the book entitled La 
Reformulation : un principe universel d’acquisition (Kimé, 2003, Claire 
Martinot & Amr Ibrahim, éds.).

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Claire Martinot
Maître de Conférences, HDR
Université René Descartes, Paris 5
LEAPLE, UMR 8606
 49, av. de Condé
F-94100 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés

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