Conversation et reformulation dans l'acquisition du langage

Abstract

Children acquire language in conversation as they interact with their adult (and more expert) interlocutors. In these conversations, adults offer feedback when children make errors in phonology, morphology, syntax, or lexicon. To do this, adults reformulate the child’s erroneous utterance in the next turn with either a side-squence or an embedded correction. Adults also use reformuations to distinguish the meanings of the infinitive and past participle for Group-1 verbs in French.