Dominique Bassano
Biographic Data
| ID | 1692153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominique Bassano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominique |
| FAMILY NAME | Bassano |
| SIGNATURE | BASSANO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prosody and animacy in the development of noun determiner use: A cross-linguistic approach
This study investigates prosodic (noun length) and lexical-semantic (animacy) influences on determiner use in the spontaneous speech of three children acquiring French, Austrian German and Dutch. In support of typological and language-specific hypotheses from the Germanic–Romance contrast, an advantage of monosyllabic nouns and of inanimate nouns for taking a determiner or filler was found in French, but not in Austrian German or Dutch. The autho…
Dynamic Adaptation in Child-Adult Language Interaction
When speaking to young children, adults adapt their language to that of the child. In this article, we suggest that this child-directed speech (CDS) is the result of a transactional process of dynamic adaptation between the child and the adult. The study compares developmental trajectories of three children to those of the CDS of their caregivers. Furthermore, a mathematical-conceptual model is built that captures the essential dynamics of adapta…
A comparative and dynamic approach to the development of determiner use in three children acquiring different languages
The study investigates the development of determiner use in three children acquiring French, Austrian German and Dutch, from the onset of language until age 3;0. Noun constructions (determiner omission, correct bare nouns, filler and determiner uses) in the children and in their inputs are analysed, providing evidence of similarities in developmental shape as well as differences in frequencies and timing. As expected, determiner use was delayed i…
Noun grammaticalization and determiner use in French children's speech: A gradual development with prosodic and lexical influences
This study investigates when and how French-learning children acquire the main grammatical constraint on the noun category, i.e. the obligatory use of a preceding determiner. Spontaneous speech samples coming from the corpora of twenty children in each of three age groups, 1 ; 8, 2 ; 6, 3 ; 3, were transcribed and coded with respect to morphosyntactic, lexical and length properties of nouns. Results indicate that noun grammaticalization is a grad…
A naturalistic study of early lexical development: General processes and inter-individual variations in French children
This study investigated early lexical development in French by analysing changes and variability in lexical production and composition of children’s spontaneous speech samples from three age groups: 1;8, 2;6 and 3;3 years (20 children in each). Analyses of general developmental changes showed that lexical productivity increased strongly between 1;8 and 2;6 and between 2;6 and 3;3. Changes in lexical composition mostly occurred between 1;8 and 2;6…
Production naturelle précoce et acquisition du langage: L’exemple du développement des noms
Le petit d’homme ne naît pas avec le langage. Pour communiquer avec son entourage, il doit apprendre la langue parlée autour de lui, qui est l’un des quelque 6000 systèmes symboliques conventionnels utilisés dans le monde. Et, compte tenu du haut niveau de sophistication des systèmes linguistiques, il y parvient en un laps de temps relativement court. L’enfant commence, en effet, à produire ses premiers mots conventionnels vers le début de sa sec…
Early Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Lexical Development: Evidence from Periphrastic Constructions in French and Austrian German
This paper takes a functionalist approach to the acquisition of verb morphology in French and Austrian German. The development of periphrastic constructions using auxiliaries and modal verbs (compound past, modal constructions and analytic future) was examined in two French and two Austrian children’s spontaneous speech samples from the onset of production until 3;0. Crosslinguistic comparisons showed both similarities and differences in the deve…
Early development of nouns and verbs in French: Exploring the interface between lexicon and grammar
Early acquisition of nouns and verbs across languages is a key issue for a number of recent studies that question the reality of the ‘noun-bias’ and wonder about the reasons why it exists as they explore the role of cognitive vs. more language-specific input factors. Addressing this issue, the present study investigates how the noun and verb word classes develop in the free speech of a French child between the ages of 1;2 and 2;6, from the perspe…
Developmental changes and variability in the early lexicon: A study of French children's naturalistic productions
This paper investigates developmental changes, as well as inter-linguistic and inter-individual variations, in the expansion and composition of French children's early lexicons. Two studies were conducted using children's naturalistic productions: a longitudinal study of one child between 1;2 and 2;6, and a cross-sectional study of two groups (12 children each) aged 1;8 and 2;6. Analyses indicate that lexical productivity (measured in types, toke…
Verb Agreement Processing In French: A Study Of On-line Grammaticality Judgments
This study investigates the implementation of the syntactic constraint of verb agreement in French sentence processing. An experimental on-line error detection paradigm is used to examine how variations in linguistic material interposed between the subject and the verb affected the detection of number-verb agreement violations. Detection times mainly vary as a function of the linguistic structure of the interposed material: detection times are cl…
Functional and formal constraints on the emergence of epistemic modality: A longitudinal study on French
The study investigates the emergence and early development of epistemic modality, a linguistic sub-system devoted to the expression of speakers' cognitive attitudes. It is based on the longitudinal analyses of the naturalistic productions of a French child between 1;9 and 4;0. Analyses indicate that epistemic modality emerges later than dynamic/deontic categories and shows a specific developmental progression from 2;3 on. The study examines in pa…
French concessive connectives and argumentation: An experimental study in eight- to ten-year-old children
An experimental study examined the comprehension of sentences containing concessive connectives, considered from an argumentative-conclusive point of view, in eight- and ten-year-old French children (24 subjects in each age group). Two tasks were used; subjects had to choose between (1) opposite preceding contexts of sentences (context choice task), and (2) conclusions that could be drawn from the same sentences (conclusion choice task). Results …
Early grammatical and prosodic marking of utterance modality in French: A longitudinal case study
The study investigates how basic communicative functions expressed by utterance modalities (declarative, exclamative, injunctive, interrogative) emerged in the early language of a French child, and examines whether and how morphosyntactic and prosodic devices were used to mark these contrasts. A longitudinal corpus of naturalistic productions was collected between the ages of 1;2 and 1;9, and 960 utterances were subjected to functional, prosodic …
Pragmatics and metapragmatics in the development of epistemic modality: Evidence from French children's reports of think-statements
This study examines children's knowledge of the rules of use for epistemic modal devices. French children of 5, 7 and 9 years saw filmed dialogues that contained a target accusation, the appropriateness of which depended on whether the speaker witnessed the relevant facts, used a modal verb (croire 'think'), and accused the correct agent. Children narrated these films, then answered questions about them. Their reports of the targets show that, al…
Epistemic modality in French children's discourse: To be sure or not to be sure
This study focuses on the development of epistemic modality, with particular attention to how French children evaluate the conditions of use for modal expressions marking certainty and uncertainty. Sixty children aged four, six and eight were shown films involving verbal interactions in which a target speaker accused another of having performed a deed. The analysis examine children's responses during a subsequent interview in which they were aske…
Opérateurs et connecteurs argumentatifs: Une approche psycholinguistique
Cet article examine le développement chez l'enfant de la "compétence argumentative", définie au moyen des concepts de la théorie de l'argumentation de J.-C. Anscombre et O. Ducrot. La compétence argumentative désigne ici la capacité des sujets à manier ou interpréter des composants de la langue — opérateurs ou connecteurs linguistiques — dont la fonction principale est de régler les enchaînements conclusifs entre les énoncés. L'auteur présente un…
The argumentative connective même in French: An experimental study in eight- to ten-year-old children
This study examines how children understand the argumentative function of the French connective même (‘even’). Two completion tasks, related to the argumentative properties of the morpheme, were used: (1) to infer the conclusion of an ‘even’ sentence, and (2) to infer the argument position. Two main factors likely to influence the comprehension were investigated: the semantic context, and the syntactic form – affirmative vs negative. The argument…
La fonction argumentative des marques de la langue
Focusing in statement interpretation
Five-year-olds' understanding of ‘savoir’ and ‘croire’
The interpretation of French statements involving the verbs savoir (‘to know’) and croire (‘to think’) was studied in a group of children aged from 4; 1 to 1. The experiment consisted in asking subjects to attribute four sentences (‘I know that P’, ‘I know that not-P’, ‘I do not know if P’, ‘I think that P’) to fictitious speakers (dolls placed in various situations of knowledge). Results enable us to infer levels of understanding, to locate the …
Production naturelle précoce et acquisition du langage: L’exemple du développement des noms
Le petit d’homme ne naît pas avec le langage. Pour communiquer avec son entourage, il doit apprendre la langue parlée autour de lui, qui est l’un des quelque 6000 systèmes symboliques conventionnels utilisés dans le monde. Et, compte tenu du haut niveau de sophistication des systèmes linguistiques, il y parvient en un laps de temps relativement court. L’enfant commence, en effet, à produire ses premiers mots conventionnels vers le début de sa sec…
Dynamic Adaptation in Child-Adult Language Interaction
When speaking to young children, adults adapt their language to that of the child. In this article, we suggest that this child-directed speech (CDS) is the result of a transactional process of dynamic adaptation between the child and the adult. The study compares developmental trajectories of three children to those of the CDS of their caregivers. Furthermore, a mathematical-conceptual model is built that captures the essential dynamics of adapta…
Five-year-olds' understanding of ‘savoir’ and ‘croire’
The interpretation of French statements involving the verbs savoir (‘to know’) and croire (‘to think’) was studied in a group of children aged from 4; 1 to 1. The experiment consisted in asking subjects to attribute four sentences (‘I know that P’, ‘I know that not-P’, ‘I do not know if P’, ‘I think that P’) to fictitious speakers (dolls placed in various situations of knowledge). Results enable us to infer levels of understanding, to locate the …
Focusing in statement interpretation
La fonction argumentative des marques de la langue
The argumentative connective même in French: An experimental study in eight- to ten-year-old children
This study examines how children understand the argumentative function of the French connective même (‘even’). Two completion tasks, related to the argumentative properties of the morpheme, were used: (1) to infer the conclusion of an ‘even’ sentence, and (2) to infer the argument position. Two main factors likely to influence the comprehension were investigated: the semantic context, and the syntactic form – affirmative vs negative. The argument…
Opérateurs et connecteurs argumentatifs: Une approche psycholinguistique
Cet article examine le développement chez l'enfant de la "compétence argumentative", définie au moyen des concepts de la théorie de l'argumentation de J.-C. Anscombre et O. Ducrot. La compétence argumentative désigne ici la capacité des sujets à manier ou interpréter des composants de la langue — opérateurs ou connecteurs linguistiques — dont la fonction principale est de régler les enchaînements conclusifs entre les énoncés. L'auteur présente un…
Epistemic modality in French children's discourse: To be sure or not to be sure
This study focuses on the development of epistemic modality, with particular attention to how French children evaluate the conditions of use for modal expressions marking certainty and uncertainty. Sixty children aged four, six and eight were shown films involving verbal interactions in which a target speaker accused another of having performed a deed. The analysis examine children's responses during a subsequent interview in which they were aske…
Pragmatics and metapragmatics in the development of epistemic modality: Evidence from French children's reports of think-statements
This study examines children's knowledge of the rules of use for epistemic modal devices. French children of 5, 7 and 9 years saw filmed dialogues that contained a target accusation, the appropriateness of which depended on whether the speaker witnessed the relevant facts, used a modal verb (croire 'think'), and accused the correct agent. Children narrated these films, then answered questions about them. Their reports of the targets show that, al…
French concessive connectives and argumentation: An experimental study in eight- to ten-year-old children
An experimental study examined the comprehension of sentences containing concessive connectives, considered from an argumentative-conclusive point of view, in eight- and ten-year-old French children (24 subjects in each age group). Two tasks were used; subjects had to choose between (1) opposite preceding contexts of sentences (context choice task), and (2) conclusions that could be drawn from the same sentences (conclusion choice task). Results …
Early grammatical and prosodic marking of utterance modality in French: A longitudinal case study
The study investigates how basic communicative functions expressed by utterance modalities (declarative, exclamative, injunctive, interrogative) emerged in the early language of a French child, and examines whether and how morphosyntactic and prosodic devices were used to mark these contrasts. A longitudinal corpus of naturalistic productions was collected between the ages of 1;2 and 1;9, and 960 utterances were subjected to functional, prosodic …
Functional and formal constraints on the emergence of epistemic modality: A longitudinal study on French
The study investigates the emergence and early development of epistemic modality, a linguistic sub-system devoted to the expression of speakers' cognitive attitudes. It is based on the longitudinal analyses of the naturalistic productions of a French child between 1;9 and 4;0. Analyses indicate that epistemic modality emerges later than dynamic/deontic categories and shows a specific developmental progression from 2;3 on. The study examines in pa…
Verb Agreement Processing In French: A Study Of On-line Grammaticality Judgments
This study investigates the implementation of the syntactic constraint of verb agreement in French sentence processing. An experimental on-line error detection paradigm is used to examine how variations in linguistic material interposed between the subject and the verb affected the detection of number-verb agreement violations. Detection times mainly vary as a function of the linguistic structure of the interposed material: detection times are cl…
Developmental changes and variability in the early lexicon: A study of French children's naturalistic productions
This paper investigates developmental changes, as well as inter-linguistic and inter-individual variations, in the expansion and composition of French children's early lexicons. Two studies were conducted using children's naturalistic productions: a longitudinal study of one child between 1;2 and 2;6, and a cross-sectional study of two groups (12 children each) aged 1;8 and 2;6. Analyses indicate that lexical productivity (measured in types, toke…
Early development of nouns and verbs in French: Exploring the interface between lexicon and grammar
Early acquisition of nouns and verbs across languages is a key issue for a number of recent studies that question the reality of the ‘noun-bias’ and wonder about the reasons why it exists as they explore the role of cognitive vs. more language-specific input factors. Addressing this issue, the present study investigates how the noun and verb word classes develop in the free speech of a French child between the ages of 1;2 and 2;6, from the perspe…
Early Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Lexical Development: Evidence from Periphrastic Constructions in French and Austrian German
This paper takes a functionalist approach to the acquisition of verb morphology in French and Austrian German. The development of periphrastic constructions using auxiliaries and modal verbs (compound past, modal constructions and analytic future) was examined in two French and two Austrian children’s spontaneous speech samples from the onset of production until 3;0. Crosslinguistic comparisons showed both similarities and differences in the deve…
A naturalistic study of early lexical development: General processes and inter-individual variations in French children
This study investigated early lexical development in French by analysing changes and variability in lexical production and composition of children’s spontaneous speech samples from three age groups: 1;8, 2;6 and 3;3 years (20 children in each). Analyses of general developmental changes showed that lexical productivity increased strongly between 1;8 and 2;6 and between 2;6 and 3;3. Changes in lexical composition mostly occurred between 1;8 and 2;6…
Production naturelle précoce et acquisition du langage: L’exemple du développement des noms
Le petit d’homme ne naît pas avec le langage. Pour communiquer avec son entourage, il doit apprendre la langue parlée autour de lui, qui est l’un des quelque 6000 systèmes symboliques conventionnels utilisés dans le monde. Et, compte tenu du haut niveau de sophistication des systèmes linguistiques, il y parvient en un laps de temps relativement court. L’enfant commence, en effet, à produire ses premiers mots conventionnels vers le début de sa sec…
Noun grammaticalization and determiner use in French children's speech: A gradual development with prosodic and lexical influences
This study investigates when and how French-learning children acquire the main grammatical constraint on the noun category, i.e. the obligatory use of a preceding determiner. Spontaneous speech samples coming from the corpora of twenty children in each of three age groups, 1 ; 8, 2 ; 6, 3 ; 3, were transcribed and coded with respect to morphosyntactic, lexical and length properties of nouns. Results indicate that noun grammaticalization is a grad…
A comparative and dynamic approach to the development of determiner use in three children acquiring different languages
The study investigates the development of determiner use in three children acquiring French, Austrian German and Dutch, from the onset of language until age 3;0. Noun constructions (determiner omission, correct bare nouns, filler and determiner uses) in the children and in their inputs are analysed, providing evidence of similarities in developmental shape as well as differences in frequencies and timing. As expected, determiner use was delayed i…
Prosody and animacy in the development of noun determiner use: A cross-linguistic approach
This study investigates prosodic (noun length) and lexical-semantic (animacy) influences on determiner use in the spontaneous speech of three children acquiring French, Austrian German and Dutch. In support of typological and language-specific hypotheses from the Germanic–Romance contrast, an advantage of monosyllabic nouns and of inanimate nouns for taking a determiner or filler was found in French, but not in Austrian German or Dutch. The autho…
Dynamic Adaptation in Child-Adult Language Interaction
When speaking to young children, adults adapt their language to that of the child. In this article, we suggest that this child-directed speech (CDS) is the result of a transactional process of dynamic adaptation between the child and the adult. The study compares developmental trajectories of three children to those of the CDS of their caregivers. Furthermore, a mathematical-conceptual model is built that captures the essential dynamics of adapta…
Linguistics (19 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Language Development and Disorders (16 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (12 works) · Noun (8 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Verb (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works)