LANGUAGE BASES ... DISCOURSE BASES SOME ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH-LANGUAGE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS RESEARCH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Language Bases -- Basic Textual Capacities -- Cohesion Conditions (Syntactic Organization of Discourse) -- Coherence Conditions (Organization of Knowledge in Discourse) -- Speech Bases -- Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Languages -- Cerebral Morphology -- Handedness and Language -- Speech Production and Perception -- Referential Relationships -- Predication and Anaphoric Relationships -- Conclusion -- Prenatal Familiarization -- Introduction -- Development of the Auditory System -- Intrauterine Acoustic Stimulation and Fetal Responses -- Endogenous Background Noise -- External Sounds -- Fetal Reactiveness to Sound -- Consequences of Fetal Familiarization to Speech Sounds -- Structural and Functional Effects -- Behavioral Effects -- Conclusion -- Initial Equipment for Speech Perception -- Initial Perceptive Equipment -- Specialized Basic Equipment? -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- Target-Language Influences on Prespeech -- Comparative Studies -- Target-Language Influence on Prespeech: Adult Judgements -- Experiment 1 -- Experiment 2 -- Long-Term Spectra -- Acoustic Study of Vowels -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- Prosodic Cues in Very Young Children's Speech -- Intonational Organization of Young Children's Speech -- Young Children's Perception of Prosodic Cues -- Intonation Conditions that Effect Intelligibility -- Influence of Speech Timing on Intelligibility -- Influence of Pitch on Intelligibility -- Conclusions -- Basic Discourse Capacities -- Cohesion: Syntactic Organization Leading to Discourse -- Verbs as Sentence Organizers -- Children's Representation of the Verb Before Reading Age -- The Verb as a Word of the Language.

The Verb as a Sentence Organizer -- The Development of the Notion of a Verb Between Ages 7 and 13 -- Preeminence of Regular Verbs -- Conclusion -- Pronoun Assignment in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous Sentences -- Hypothesis 1 -- Hypothesis 2 -- Hypothesis 3 -- Experiment 1 -- Method -- Procedure -- Subjects -- Results -- Discussion -- Experiment 2 -- Method -- Procedure -- Subjects -- Results -- Discussion -- Experiment 3 -- Method -- Procedure -- Subjects -- Results -- Discussion -- General Discussion -- Conjunctions: Developmental Issues -- Preliminary Considerations -- Specific Problems in Developmental Studies of Conjunctions -- Order of AcquisitionIt -- Task Biases and Interpreting Results -- The Acquisition of BUT: A Cross-linguistic Analysis -- Utterances in which the Child Says "P MAIS Q" -- Utterances in which X (Interlocutor) Says P and the Child Says "MAIS Q" -- Utterances in which the Child Says "MAIS Q" in Response to Extralinguistic Context -- The "MAIS Q" Situation (Linguistic and Nonlinguistic) -- Final Remarks -- Children's Production of Textual Organizers -- NOTES -- The Development of Discourse Cohesion: Some Functional and Cross-Linguistic Issues -- Introduction -- Deixis, Coreference, and Anaphora -- Cohesion in Children's Narratives -- Introduction of Referents -- Reference Maintenance -- Cross-Linguistic Perspective -- Referent-Introductions and Reference-Maintenance in Chinese -- Referent-Introductions and Reference-Maintenance in French -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- Coherence: Language as it Underlies and Organizes Knowledge -- An Opaque Text as a Mobilizer of Knowledge -- Method -- Results -- The Children's Reaction to the Text -- General Meaning and Paraphrase -- Discussion -- Lexical Meaning -- Macrocontextual level: macrostrategy -- Microcontextual level: microstrategy -- Morphemic level: phonetic strategy -- Discussion.

Conclusion -- NOTES -- The Development and Role of Narrative Schema Storytelling -- Language Behavior - Storytelling -- The Notion of Language Behavior -- Narrative Behavior -- The Construction and the Role of Narrative Schema -- Study of Narrative Schema Construction -- The Evolution of Produced Narratives -- Problems and Directions of Research -- Narrative Schema, Metacognition and Cognitive Monitoring -- Narrative Schema and Surface Marks -- Stories A Psycholinguistic and Ontogenetic Approach to the Acquisition of Narrative Abilities -- A Psycholinguistic Approach to Stories -- The Acquisition of the Ability to Write a Story from One's Own Experience -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- The Development of Argumentative Discourse -- Argumentative Discourse -- Argumentation and Propositional Logic -- Argumentation and Reasoning -- Argumentation and Narration -- The Development of Argumentative Discourse in Adolescents: Experimental Studies -- Method -- Results -- Modalities -- Argumentation and Narration -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- References -- Index.