French-speaking children's understanding of sarcasm: The role of intonation and context

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 610-620

  Laval, Virginie ^a   Bert Erboul, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Children; Language; Pragmatic skills; Sarcastic requests; Understanding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SKILL; SPEECH;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 24944520306     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/042)     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Ackerman, B. P. (1982). Contextual integration and utterance interpretation: The ability of children and adults to interpret sarcastic utterances. Child Development, 53, 1075-1083.
2. Ackerman, B. P. (1983a). Children's judgement of the functional acceptability of referential communication in discourse context. Journal of Child Language, 10, 151-166.
3. Ackerman, B. P. (1983b). Form and function in children's understanding of ironic utterances. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 35, 487-508.
4. Ackerman, B. P. (1986). Children's sensitivity to comprehension failure in interpreting a nonliteral use of an utterance. Child Development, 57, 485-497.
5. Andrews, J., Rosenblatt, E., Malkus, U., Gardner, H., & Winner, E. (1986). Children's abilities to distinguish metaphoric and ironic utterances from mistakes and lies. Communication and Cognition, 19, 281-298.
6. Bernicot, J., & Laval, V. (1996). Promises in French children: Comprehension and metapragmatic knowledge. Journal of Pragmatics, 25, 101-122.
7. Bernicot, J., & Legros, S. (1987). Direct and indirect directives: What do young children understand? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 43, 346-358.
8. Botinis, A., Granström, B., & Möbius, B. (2001). Developments and paradigms in intonation research. Speech Communication, 33, 263-296.
9. Bruner, J. (1983). Child's talk: Learning to use language. New York: Norton.
10. Capelli, C., Nakagawa, N., & Madden, C. M. (1990). How children understand sarcasm: The role of context and intonation. Child Development, 61, 1824-1841.
11. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
12. Creusere, M. A. (1999). Theories of adults' understanding and use of irony and sarcasm: Applications to and evidence from research with children. Developmental Review, 19, 213-262.
13. Creusere, M. A. (2000). A developmental test of theoretical perspectives on the understanding of verbal irony: Children's recognition of allusion and pragmatic insincerity. Metaphor and Symbol, 15(1-2), 29-45.
14. DeCasper, A. J., & Fifer, W. P. (1980). On human bonding: Newborns prefer their mother's voice. Science, 208, 1174-1176.
15. de Groot, A., Kaplan, J., Rosenblatt, E., Dews, S., & Winner, E. (1995). Understanding versus discriminating nonliteral utterances: Evidence for a disassociation. Metaphor and Symbol, 10, 255-273.
16. Dews, S., Winner, E., Kaplan, J., Rosenblatt, E., & Hunt, H., Lim, K., et al. (1996). Children's understanding of the meaning and functions of verbal irony. Child Development, 67, 3071-3085.
17. D'odorico, L., & Carubbi, S. (2001). Early multi-word utterances in Italian-speaking children. In I. Idiazabal & B. MacWhinney (Eds), Syntax, morphology, phonology and the lexicon (pp. 1123-1141). Donastia, Spain: Cascadilla Press.
18. D'odorico, L., & Canibbi, S. (2003). Prosodic characteristics of early multi-word utterances in Italian children. First Language, 23, 97-116.
19. Fernald, A. (1993). Approval and disapproval: Infant responsiveness to vocal affect in familiar and unfamiliar languages. Child Development, 64, 657-674.
20. Gibbs, R. W. (1986a). Comprehension and memory for nonliteral utterances: The problem of sarcastic indirect requests. Acta Psychologica, 62, 41-57.
21. Gibbs, R. W. (1986b). On the psycholinguistics of sarcasm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 115, 3-15.
22. Gibbs, R. W. (1991). Semantic analyzability in children's understanding of idioms. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 34, 613-620.
23. Haiman, J. (1998). Iconicity. In J. Mey (Ed.), Concise encyclopedia of pragmatics, (pp. 361-366). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
24. Harris, M., & Pexman, P. M. (2003). Children's perceptions of social functions of verbal irony. Discourse Processes, 36(3), 147-165.
25. Keenan, T. R., & Quigley, K. (1999). Do young children use echoic information in their comprehension of sarcastic speech? A test of echoic mention theory. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 83-96.
26. Kumon-Nakamura, S., Glucksberg, S., & Brown, M. (1995). How about another piece of pie? The allusional pretense theory of discourse irony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 3-21.
27. Laval, V. (2003). Idiom comprehension and metapragmatic knowledge. Journal of Pragmatics, 35, 723-739.
28. Laval, V., & Bernicot, J. (1999). French children's comprehension of promises: The part of the future. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 28, 179-195.
29. Lee, C. J., & Katz, A. N. (1998). The differential role of ridicule in sarcasm and irony. Metaphor and Symbol, 13, 1-15.
30. Nazzi, T., Floccia, C., & Bertoncini, J. (1998). Discrimination of pitch contour by neonates. Infant Behavior and Development, 21, 779-784.
31. Nippold, M. A., & Haq, F. S. (1996). Proverb comparison in youth: The role of concreteness and familiarity. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 166-176.
32. Nippold, M. A., Moran, C., & Schwartz, I. E. (2001). Idiom understanding in preadolescents: Synergy in action. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 169-179.
33. Nippold, M. A., & Taylor, C. L. (1995). Idiom understanding in youth: Further examination of familiarity and transparency. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 38, 426-433.
34. Nippold, M. A., Taylor, C. L., & Baker, J. M. (1996). Idiom understanding in Australian youth: A cross-cultural comparison. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 442-447.
35. Sansavini, A., Bertoncini, J., & Giovanelli, G. (1997). Newborns discriminate the rhythm of multisyllabic stressed words. Developmental Psychology, 33, 3-11.
36. Searle, J. E., & Vanderveken, D. (1985). Foundations of illocutionary logic. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
37. Shatz, M. (1978a). Children's comprehension of their mothers' question directives. Journal of Child Language, 5, 39-46.
38. Shatz, M. (1978b). On the development of communicative understandings: An early strategy for interpreting and responding to messages. Cognitive Psychology, 10, 271-301.
39. Spekman, N. J., & Roth, F. (1985). Children's comprehension and production of directive forms. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 14, 331-349.
40. Vanderveken, D. (1990a). Meaning and speech acts Vol. I. Principles of language use. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
41. Vanderveken, D. (1990b). Meaning and speech acts: Vol. II. Formal semantics of success and satisfaction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
42. Vanderveken, D. (2001). Illocutionary logic and discourse typology. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 55, 243-256.
43. Vygotski, L. S. (1962). Thought and language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
44. Winner, E. (1988). The point of words: Children's understanding of metaphor and irony. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
45. Winner, E., & Leekman, S. (1991). Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second-order intention. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 257-270.
46. Winner, E., Windmueller, G., Rosenblatt, E., Bosco, L., Best, E., & Gardner, H. (1987). Making sense of literal and nonliteral falsehood. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 2, 13-32.