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In:Language Bases ... Discourse Bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research
Edited by Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and Marlene Dolitsky
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 17] 1991
► pp. v–vi

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Table of contents

Introduction1
Speech Bases
Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Languages11
Prenatal Familiarization31
Initial Equipment for Speech Perception45
Target-Language Influences on Prespeech57
Prosodic Cues in Very Young Children&wp0,39;s Speech73
Basic Discourse Capacities
Cohesion: Syntactic Organization Leading to Discourse
Verbs as Sentence Organizers93
Pronoun Assignment in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous Sentences109
Conjunctions: Developmental Issues125
Children’s Production of Textual Organizers143
The Development of Discourse Cohesion: Some Functional and Cross-Linguistic Issues157
Coherence: Language as it Underlies and Organizes Knowledge
An Opaque Text as a Mobilizer of Knowledge189
The Development and Role of Narrative Schema Storytelling209
Stories A Psycholinguistic and Ontogenetic Approach to the Acquisition of Narrative Abilities229
The Development of Argumentative Discourse245
References269
Index335
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