caa a22 4500 386359342 CHVBK 20180307111910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010382 doi S0305000900010382 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010382 Playing with pronouns in French maternal speech to prelingual infants [Elektronische Daten] Conventional and displaced uses of pronouns in maternal speech to refer to the baby were investigated in a developmental study of six mother—infant dyads using video-recordings of their free play at three, seven and ten months. These pronominal uses were analysed in a number of semantic contexts to determine how interactive situations influence the use of different types of pronouns. Results show that third- and first-person pronouns occur significantly more often in the semantic context of affect-oriented activities than in the semantic context of goal-directed activities. For second-person pronouns the results are the opposite. The contrast found between these two contexts, i.e. where the child is presented as the agent of a meaningful activity or not, shows how the place constructed for the baby as an interlocutor in maternal speech evolves with age. This study underlines the part the third person plays with its descriptive value in the acquisition of the system of pronouns. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Rabain-Jamin Jacqueline Université Paris V Sorbonne, Centre national de la recherche scientifique Sabeau-Jouannet Emilie Université Paris V Sorbonne, Centre national de la recherche scientifique Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 217-238 0305-0009 16:2<217 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010382 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010382 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rabain-Jamin Jacqueline Université Paris V Sorbonne, Centre national de la recherche scientifique NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sabeau-Jouannet Emilie Université Paris V Sorbonne, Centre national de la recherche scientifique NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 217-238 0305-0009 16:2<217 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge