The acquisition of personal pronouns' comprehension and production in French-speaking children: Toward the ability to embody characters' perspectives in various pictured speech interactions.

ABSTRACT: Language acquisition involves the ability to switch perspectives according to the partners' roles in the speech context. This ability, involving morphosyntactic and pragmatic aspects, is fundamental in the acquisition process of personal pronouns (PersP). Our aim is to analyze, in spoken French, the acquisition of comprehension and production of PersP according to different perspectives (1p, 2p, 3p) and functions [subject (S); direct object (DO) and indirect object (IO) clitics]. 110 children aged from 6 to 13 participated. Comprehension and production of PersP were evaluated through an experimental protocol consisting of various ecological situations of the children's daily life, in a comic strip format. Sentences had two levels of difficulty: D1, involving S and DO; and D2 involving S, D

SUBMITTER: Xavier J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12453247 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature