A la source du futur: premières formes verbales dans les productions spontanées de deux enfants français de 18 mois à 3 ans

Abstract

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The unfolding of the verbal temporal system in French children's speech between 18 and 36 months

“…They localize events in the past. New uses of the 'passé composé' and the introduction of the 'imparfait' and the inflectional future (Morgenstern et al, 2009) mark a real dissociation between speech time and event time. 4) Around age four or five, children can position anteriority and posteriority relative to reference time and not only speech time.…”

“…They localize events in the past. New uses of the ‘passé composé’ and the introduction of the ‘imparfait’ and the inflectional future (Morgenstern et al ., 2009) mark a real dissociation between speech time and event time.Around age four or five, children can position anteriority and posteriority relative to reference time and not only speech time. However, according to Labelle (1994), the use of the ‘plus-que-parfait’ at around age four is not sufficient proof that children rely on reference time that would be displaced from speech time.…”

“…They localize events in the past. New uses of the ‘passé composé’ and the introduction of the ‘imparfait’ and the inflectional future (Morgenstern et al ., 2009) mark a real dissociation between speech time and event time.…”

“…However, in oral French a large number of forms are homophonous; two of the most frequent phonological forms – past participle and infinitive of the first group as in fermé (closed) / fermer (to close) are overwhelmingly represented. In our previous work, we have observed two main stages of development (Morgenstern et al ., 2009): Only a small subset of the large variety of forms available in French is initially used. Children produce forms that are frequent and salient in the input, using them even more frequently and systematically than adults.Later, a variety of forms appear, including forms that are infrequent in the input.…”

First language acquisition of French grammar (from 10 months to 4 years old) Introduction

“…Later, children start producing several inflections for the same verb, including forms that are infrequent in the input. This is consistent with other studies on the acquisition of French tenses (see in particular Sabeau-Jouannet (1977), Labelle (1994) and Morgenstern et al ., 2009). The authors’ results and analyses then suggest that children might be able to refer to past, present, future, and distinguish completed/ongoing processes, from a very early age, but that the conventional link between verbal forms and their functions is shaped and developed through usage and interaction with their adult interlocutors.…”