Elicitación de la combinación de palabras en contextos conversacionales

The present study is an experimental pilot study conducted with 10 French monolingual children, between 19 and 25 months of age. It explores the possibilities of an elicitation method in the transition to word combinations.

This work is based on conversational sequences of interaction in a natural context, and the procedure can be used as part of the guidance to parents, as well as part of the speech therapy with children with language difficulties during their early development, regardless of their chronological age.

The experimental procedure is to elicit utterances that extend the information of the first contribution of the child in a conversation.

The results show differences between groups for the experimental group, while increasing the production of multi-word utterances which are spontaneous and not uttered before in the immediate conversation.

The main contribution of this work to the speech therapy is the procedure of construction of experimental material for the elicitation of multi-word utterances from the combination of basic semantic functions, working from the productive lexicon of each child from the sample.

It raises the possibility of extending the study to larger samples and other languages.