A naturalistic study of early lexical development: General processes and inter-individual variations in French children.

Dominique Bassano , Elsa Eme (1) , Christian Champaud

1 CeRCA [Poitiers] - Centre de recherches sur la cognition et l'apprentissage [UMR 7295]

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).

Mots clés: crosslingustic variation; French; grammatical explosion; interindividual variation; lexical development; naturalistic production; noun-verb asynchrony

Domaines: Psychologie

Dominique Bassano, Elsa Eme, Christian Champaud. A naturalistic study of early lexical development: General processes and inter-individual variations in French children.. First Language, 2005, 25 (1), pp.67-101. ⟨10.1177/0142723705049119⟩. ⟨halshs-00193345⟩