Análisis de frecuencias de construcciones anafóricas en narraciones infantiles

Abstract

The main goal of this article is to show how the CHILDES Program (Child Language Data Exchange System) can be employed as an instrument for the analysis of oral child narrations. Specifically, CHILDES can be utilized like an electronic tool that helps to localize and calculate the frequency of use of nominal and pronominal phrases within an anaphoric chain. Therefore, I expose the results obtained of an analysis about these phrases (injunction of anaphoric devices), which was applied to a corpora of child narrations.
These narrations were elaborated for 20 children of 6 and 12 years old, in base to a plotline proposed for a design sequence named Frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969).