Una aproximación a los procesos cognitivos involucrados en el uso de recursos cohesivos en narraciones infantiles
The present investigation has the objective of studying the cohesive resources in children's narratives, to determine which factors affect their development. Defagó (2018) studied written accounts of first and second grade Spanish-speaking children and identified that some formal linguistic too...
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| Lenguaje: | spa |
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Instituto de Lingüística, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/analeslinguistica/article/view/6705 |
| Sumario: | The present investigation has the objective of studying the cohesive resources in children's narratives, to determine which factors affect their development. Defagó (2018) studied written accounts of first and second grade Spanish-speaking children and identified that some formal linguistic tools (therefore, abstract) appear and are used correctly faster than others that do have lexical expression. This situation, very noticeable in the cohesion resources, indicates a kind ofasymmetry between the development of these elements and their apparent levels of complexity (due to the abstraction required for their mastery).
Our study is a continuation of that precedent to investigate if the asymmetry is also manifested in orality. We analyze oral stories produced by Spanish-speaking children of 7 or 8 years old (in second grade), in order to observe the behavior ofnull sentence subjects (phonetically empty), an abstract and complex tool. To establish possible contrasts, we also observe the pronominalization of the subject (another formal resource) and the use of extra-sentential links (lexical units present on the surface of the language) in the same productions. The results showed an excellent command of the formal tools, without cases ofdecontextualized uses or with unrecoverable referents, but a poor handling of extra-sentential connectors: little variety, many unnecessary repetitions and ambiguous connections. The asymmetry, effectively present in orality, does notseem to be linked to this apparent complexity but to the cognitive processes linked to the use of each resource, especially in relation to linguistic competence (Chomsky, 1965).
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