Audrey Mazur-Palandre
List of John Benjamins publications for which Audrey Mazur-Palandre plays a role.
Articles
2016 Explanatory content and visibility effects on the young child’s verbal and gestural behavior in free dialogues Language, Interaction and Acquisition 7:2, pp. 180–211 | Article
In this study we analyzed the verbal and gestural behavior of 6-year-old French children during free dialogue explanation. We expected that children would alter their gestures according to content explained and interlocutor visibility. Thirty children explained two games to a peer: fifteen could… read more
2015 Overcoming preferred argument structure in written French: Development, modality, text type Written Language & Literacy 18:1, pp. 25–55 | Article
Spoken and written French contrast in many ways. Our goal here is to show how later language development is profoundly impacted by experience with written language. More than 120 French-speakers/ writers, one group of children (mean age: 10;9) and two groups of adolescents (mean age: 12;7 and… read more