Marine Le Mené Guigourès
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marine Le Mené Guigourès is involved.
2024 Children’s multimodal participation in interactions and dialogues across different activities in an early childhood education and care setting Interactions and Language Acquisition in Non-Family Settings, Masson, Caroline (ed.), pp. 57–94 | Article
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings are challenging contexts for children to engage in conversations. According to previous studies, toddler participation is minimal. However, most studies have focused on vocal productions. This study investigates how gestures also enable children… read more
2024 Chapter 5. Young children’s experience of referentiality and nonreferentiality in dialogue (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 80–102 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on young children’s experience of referential and nonreferential uses of noun phrases (NPs) in everyday dialogues. Our study of a corpus of interactions between adults and children aged 1;10 to 2;6 showed that the indeterminacy and instability that might characterise… read more
2023 The choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues: The influence of formal and functional factors Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 323–345 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues, and particularly on the identification of formal and functional conditions promoting the uses of personal and demonstrative pronouns. The study is based on a corpus of 22 parent-child dyads. Children are aged… read more
2021 Chapter 1. Children’s socialization to multi-party interactive practices: Who talks to whom about what in family dinners Language and Social Interaction at Home and School, Caronia, Letizia (ed.), pp. 45–86 | Chapter
Multiparty interactions are crucial situations to study how children can participate in collaborative talk and broaden their experience of various interactional practices. Family dinners are particularly relevant to analyze how children and adults play different participatory roles and how… read more
2021 Chapter 2. Filler syllables as precursors of referring expressions The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach, Salazar-Orvig, Anne, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland (eds.), pp. 41–80 | Chapter
In this chapter, we examine the properties of filler syllables as transition forms in the development of referring expressions. In particular, we hypothesize that fillers are precursors of referring expressions. We focus on the distribution, the phonological form and the referential function of… read more




