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French preschoolers' use of et pis ('and then')

This research proposes a taxonomy for evaluating children's uses of sentence connectives. It is used to examine et pis ('and then') in the speech of monolingual French children ranging in age from 3 to 5 years and participating in a classroom-based 'show and tell' session. The younger children are shown to encode a wider variety of logico- semantic relations with et pis. The older children narrow down the range of logico-semantic relations encoded by et pis and show an increase in other structures which accomplish the same tasks.