Développement phonético-phonologique en fulfulde et bambara d’enfants monolingues et bilingues : étude du babillage et des premiers mots

Abstract

This descriptive and analytical

study is based on two corpora of audiovisual data of monolingual and

multilingual children’s babbling and first words gathered in Mali during

a period of nearly a year. It is concerned with fundamental discussions about the development and acquisition of language such as the issue of the presence or absence of evidence of early specialization in children at the babbling stage, the continuity between babbling and first words, and the emergence and development of phonology in children