Submitted by Morgana Silva (morgana_linhares@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-10-11T19:09:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1449589 bytes, checksum: 4e6ee8df94134deb1dd7db8c3bee32e9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-11T19:09:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1449589 bytes, checksum: 4e6ee8df94134deb1dd7db8c3bee32e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-11 / This dissertation aims to understand and analyze the lexical relations existing in the processing of regular words inflected in number in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), as well as to suggest a model of representation for these kind of words. We observed how words inflected in number are stored in and retrieved from the mental lexicon. Recent psycholinguistic studies have pointed out that factors like base frequency influence the processing time of forms inflected both in gender and number (DOMINGUEZ; CUETOS; SEGUI, 1999). Specifically regarding to gender inflection in BP, a frequency effect of gender inflected dominant form has been found (CORRÊA; ALMEIDA; PORTO, 2004). This experiment was carried out in order to provide some evidence about if the frequency of dominant form affects the forms inflected in number, similarly to the forms inflected in gender. The experimental design consisted of a word reading task in which both the base frequency and the frequency of dominant form inflected in gender were controlled. The results were similar to the ones found by Corrêa, Almeida e Porto (2004), since the singular words were retrieved in its whole form and the plural words were retrieved by lexical decomposition, excepting the cases of plural forms with high level of frequency, that also behave as singular forms. These results evidence the way how the inflected words are stored in the mental lexicon of BP speakers, as well as to describe its organization from a linguistic and psycholinguistic point of view. / Este trabalho se propõe a investigar as relações lexicais existentes no processamento de vocábulos flexionados em número em Português Brasileiro (PB), além de sugerir um modelo de representação para os referidos vocábulos. Observamos como as formas flexionadas em número são armazenadas e recuperadas do léxico mental. Estudos psicolinguísticos recentes têm apontado que fatores como a frequência da base influem no tempo de processamento de formas flexionadas em gênero e em número (DOMINGUEZ; CUETOS; SEGUI, 1999). No tocante especificamente à flexão de gênero em PB, um efeito da frequência dominante entre as formas flexionadas em gênero foi registrado, (CORRÊA; ALMEIDA; PORTO, 2004). A fim de prover evidências sobre se a frequência dominante afeta as formas flexionadas em número, tal qual como nas flexionadas em gênero, elaborou-se o primeiro experimento. O desenho experimental consistiu em um teste de leitura de palavras composto por vocábulos com flexão regular de número. Apresenta-se também o segundo experimento, que também consistiu em um teste de leitura de palavras, composto por vocábulos com flexão irregular de número. Nestes testes, procurou-se observar se a forma no singular era acessada por inteiro, tendo em vista efeitos de frequência dominante, e se a forma no plural era acessada por decomposição, tendo em vista efeitos de frequência não-dominante, salvo os casos de alta frequência da forma no plural, nesses casos, a referida forma também seria acessada por inteiro, contribuindo para um modelo de dupla rota. Os resultados experimentais foram na mesma direção da hipótese, atestando, assim, que as palavras com frequência dominante são processadas de forma mais rápida que as formas com frequência não-dominante.

El presente artículo constituye una aproximación psicolingüística al estudio de la ocurrencia de pronombres relativos (PR) en cláusulas relativas (CR) en español, tomando en consideración que este tipo de construcciones corresponden a variedades no estándares de la lengua y suelen ser censuradas en las gramáticas descriptivas. Dado que no existen estudios experimentales sobre el tema en español, este trabajo se basa parcialmente en un estudio llevado a cabo por Ferreira y Swets (2004) sobre un fenómeno similar en el inglés. La investigación tiene como objetivos determinar si los PR de objeto directo y oblicuos son una estrategia de reparación de una oración poco planificada y si los PR de sujeto pueden aparecer en situaciones controladas a partir del contraste de dos posibles antecedentes. / This article constitutes a psycholinguistic approach to the study of the occurrence of relative pronouns (RP) in relative clauses (RC) in Spanish, considering that this type of construction is common in nonstandard varieties of the language and are often censored in the descriptive grammars.Since there are no experimental studies on the subject in Spanish, this work is based partly on a study conducted by Ferreira and Swets (2004) on a similar phenomenon in English. The research aims to determine whether direct object and oblique RP are a repair strategy for insufficiently planned sentences and if the subject RP may appear in controlled situations derived from the contrast of two possible antecedents

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le paradigme de la linguistique cognitive. C’est une étude de cas d’aphasie d’installation soudaine par accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC), avec une hémiplégie droite associée. À quinze ans de l’atteinte, le sujet et/ou objet de l’étude, Élisabeth, garde des séquelles d’une aphasie motrice, avec quelques désordres de l’expression orale (sub-agrammatisme) mais une bonne compréhension verbale et écrite. L’étude descriptive du cas s’appuie sur la neuropsychologie et ses bases anatomo-fonctionnelles (Annexe 1). L’analyse sémiologique se fonde sur la communication dialogique via un « préceptorat de remédiation cognitive », en 47 leçons de français : la didactique des langues, d’une part (préceptorat) et la neuropsychologie de la réadaptation langagière (remédiation cognitive), d’autre part, formant le noyau dur des interactions.L’analyse préliminaire de cinq leçons situe la cohérence et la cohésion du discours et ses lacunes. Ensuite, une étude qualitative des erreurs, liée à la reconstitution des unités manquantes, précise les faits, la morphologie des verbes, surtout (le vocabulaire est bien préservé). Enfin, effectué sur les 47 leçons, le comptage des mots d’Henmon (1924), charpente du discours, rend compte de la variété structurelle des thèmes abordés. En effet, la distribution catégorielle de cet inventaire est corrélée aux thèmes choisis et à la didactique partagée des deux acteurs du préceptorat. Cette corrélation sémantique et distributionnelle montre une cohérence globale des interactions, via l’inventaire d’Henmon, mentionné dans aucune étude, à notre connaissance, ce qui nous induit à approfondir cette orientation de recherche. / This thesis concerns the paradigm of cognitive linguistics. It is a case study of sudden aphasia, with associated right hemiplegia. At fifteen years of the attack, the subject and / or objet of the study, Elizabeth, shows sequelae of motor aphasia, with some disorders of oral expression (sub-agrammatism) but a good verbal and written comprehension. The descriptive case study is based on neuropsychology and its anatomical and functional bases (Appendix 1).The semiotic analysis is constructed on the dialogic communication via a "preceptorship of cognitive remediation", in 47 lessons of French: the language teaching, on the one hand (Preceptorship) and the neuropsychology of language rehabilitation (cognitive remediation), on the other hand, are forming the hard core of the interactions. The preliminary analysis of five lessons explores the coherence and the cohesion of the discourse and its shortcomings. Then, a qualitative study of the errors, related to the reconstitution of the missing units, specifies the facts, the morphology of the verbs, especially (the vocabulary is well preserved). Finally, done on 47 lessons, the counting of the Henmon inventory words (1924), framing the discourse reflects the structural variety of topics. Indeed, the morphological distribution of this inventory is correlated with the themes chosen and the shared teaching of both preceptorship actors. This semantic and distributional correlation shows an overall wealth of interactions, via the Henmon inventory. We don’t know of any studies mentioning it, which leads us to deepen this path.

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo geral investigar tÃticas e estratÃgias de compreensÃo de expressÃes idiomÃticas utilizadas por 20 estudantes universitÃrios africanos lusÃfonos, oriundos de Cabo Verde e GuinÃ-Bissau, falantes nÃo nativos do PortuguÃs Brasileiro (PB). Para a construÃÃo das hipÃteses da pesquisa, recorreu-se a teorias PsicolinguÃsticas do processamento fraseolÃgico, nomeadamente Bobrow e Bell (1973), Irujo(1986), Cacciari e Tabossi (1993), Flores dâArcais (1993), Cooper (1999), Crespo e Caceres (2006) e Detry (2010) e, no campo fraseolÃgico, Casares ([1950] 1969), Gross ( 1996); Corpas-Pastor (1996), IÃesta Mena e Pamies PertrÃn (2002), Mellado Blanco (2004), Montoro Del Arco (2006); GarcÃa-Page SÃnchez (2008); Olza Moreno (2011); Alvarado Ortega (2010) e Luque Nadal (2012). A partir de modelos de experimentos desenvolvidos por psicolinguistas foi elaborado e aplicado aos sujeitos da pesquisa um Protocolo Verbal think aloud atravÃs do qual foram realizados trÃs experimentos que contemplaram 18 expressÃes idiomÃticas de uso frequente no Brasil, divididas em trÃs categorias fraseolÃgicas: (1) zoomorfismos; (2) somatismos; e (3) Especiais (botanismos; indumentismos; gastronomismos). Os resultados da pesquisa confirmaram hipÃteses de que expressÃes que designam nomes de animais (zoomorfismos) e partes do corpo (somatismos) favorecem a idiomaticidade fraca (transparÃncia) por sua analisabilidade ou composicionalidade semÃntica, com exceÃÃo da expressÃo fazer boca de siri cuja palavra siri nÃo à encontrada no vocabulÃrio das lÃnguas crioulas (cabo-verdiana e guineense). Entre as expressÃes especiais, rasgar seda foi considerada opaca por os informantes desconheceram o sentido dado pelos brasileiros à expressÃo. Foi confirmada a hipÃtese de que estratÃgias relacionadas ao uso de contexto sÃo as mais utilizadas pelos nÃo nativos do PB, para chegar ao sentido das expressÃes. Os resultados apontam tambÃm que o processamento fraseolÃgico nÃo segue uma Ãnica direÃÃo ascendente (bottom-up) ou descendennte (top-down), mas que existe uma inter-relaÃÃo constante entre tÃticas e estratÃgias na compreensÃo das expressÃes idiomÃticas. / This research general objective was to investigate tactics and strategies of idiomatic comprehension used by 20 Lusophone African university students, from Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, non-native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP). For the construction of the research hypotheses, psycholinguistic theories of phraseological processing, such as the ones promoted by Bobrow and Bell (1973), Irujo (1986), Cacciari & Tabossi (1993), Flores d'Arcais (1993), Cooper (1999), Crespo and Caceres (2006) and Detry ( 2010) and, in the phraseological field, Casares (1950) 1969), Gross(1996); Corpas-Pastor (1996), IÃesta Mena and Pamies PertrÃn (2002), Mellado Blanco (2004), Montoro Del Arco (2006); GarcÃa-Page SÃnchez (2008); Olza Moreno (2011); Alvarado Ortega (2010) and Luque Nadal (2012). A verbal protocol think aloud through which were carried out three experiments that have contemplated 18 idiomatic expressions of frequent use in Brazil, divided into three phraseological categories was designed from models of experiments developed by psycholinguists was elaborated and applied to the subjects of the research: (1) zoomorphisms; (2) somatics: and (3) Special (botanics, clothins, gastronomic) results of the research have confirmed the hypotheses that expressions designate names of animals (zoomorphisms) and parts of the body (somatics) favored the weak idiomatic expression (transparency) by its semantical analysis or semantical compositionality, except for the mumâs the word (fazer boca de siri) which word siri is not found in the vocabulary of Creole languages (Cape Verdean and Guinean). Between the special expressions, fazer boca de siri was considered opaque since the informants have ignored the meaning given by Brazilians to the expression. It has confirmed a hypothesis that the strategies related to the use of context are the most commonly used by non-natives of PB, to reach at the meaning of the expressions. Among the special expressions, rasgar seda was considered opaque since the informants have ignored the meaning given by Brazilians to the expression. It has confirmed a hypothesis that the strategies related to the use of context are the most commonly used by non-natives of PB, to reach at the meaning of the expressions. The results also indicate that the phraseological processing does not follow a single upward direction (bottom-up) or downward (top-down), but that exist a constant inter-relationship between tactics and strategies in comprehension of idiomatic expressions.

Orientador: Rodolfo Ilari, Edson Françozo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T03:53:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Basso_RenatoMiguel_M.pdf: 1736319 bytes, checksum: acf1a84b14a626cd4aff52527ce0266b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: o presente trabalho é uma investigação do fenômeno da detelicização, representado por sentenças como "João leu o livro por 1 semana", na qual temos um evento télico (Le., que tem um ponto final não arbitrário) seguido por um adjunto do tipo "por X tempo", que, segundo a literatura, é incompatível com eventos télicos. Dado essa alegada incompatibilidade, várias das teorias que tratam da detelicização a abordam como um caso de coerção ou "type-mismatch" para dar conta do fato de que os falantes aceitam esse tipo sentença. Para proceder a tal investigação, inicialmente apresentamos o quadro teórico que adotamos, segundo o qual os fenômenos tempo-aspectuais devem ser tratadas levando-se em conta a separação e interação de seus sub-dornínios: (i) referência temporal, que responde pela localização de eventos numa suposta seta do tempo, e é, portanto, o componente dêitico; (ii) aspecto, que é a representação, feita subjetivamente pelo falante, de um evento como concluso ou inconcluso; e (iii) acionalidade, sUb-domínio que diz respeito ao tipo de evento em questão. O objetivo do segundo capítulo é entender melhor o conceito de telicidade e como ele é apreendido pelas teorias tempo-aspectuais contemporâneas. Esse passo é imprescendível, pois somente eventos télicos podem passar pelo processo de detelicização. No terceiro capítulo apresentamos em detalhe a detelicização, definida como a apresentação de um evento interrompido, ou seja, um evento télico que se inicia e pára sem, no entanto, alcançar seu ponto final, seu telas. Depois de caracterizar esse fenômeno, esboçamos uma teoria semântico-pragmática que visa a capturá-Ia, assim como esmiuçar o que é propriamente semântico e o que é pragmático no estudo dos fenômenos tempo-aspectuais. Por fim, no quarto capítulo efetuamos dois experimentos psicolingüísticos que visavam a verificar a existência de alguma contraparte empírica (i.e., tempo de leitura) da coerção ou "type-mismatch" postulados para sentenças como "João leu o livro por uma semana". A análise dos experimentos revelou que não há qualquer diferença significativa entre o tempo de leitura de, por exemplo, "João leu o livro por uma semana" versus "João leu o livro em uma semana". Assim, diante desse resultado experimental e da teoria aqui esboçada, dispensamos como um todo o apelo a expedientes como coerção para entender a detelicização / Abstract: This dissertation investigates the phenomenon of detelicization, represented by sentences such as "João leu o livro por 1 semana" ("John read a book for 1 week"), in which there is a telic event (i.e., an event which has a non-arbítrary final point) followed by an adjunct like "for X time", which, according to the literature, is incompatible with telic events. In order to accommodate the fact that the speakers accepted thís kind of sentence, most of the theories which deal wíth detelicization treat the alleged incompatibilíty via coercion or type-mismatch. Thís díssertatíon presents an alternative to the main stream: a semantic-pragmatic approach. In order to investigate detelicization, first we present the theoretic framework we adopt. In this framework, we consíder the temporal-aspectual domaín as composed of three subdomaíns, namely: (i) temporal reference, whích gives the deictic localization of an event in the time arrow; (ií) aspect, which is the way a speaker chooses to represent an event; the event can be concluded or unconcluded; (iii) actionality, that ís, what kínd of event is denoted by the predicate. The objective of the second chapter ís to achieve a better understandíng of the notion of telícíty, and of how it is captured by contemporary temporal-aspectual theories. This understanding ís índispensable, since only telic events can be "detelicízed". In the third chapter we define detelicization in detail, Í.e. ít ís the presentatíon of and event as interrupted, that is, a telic event which begíns and stops wíthout reaching its final point, íts telos. We then íntroduce a semantic-pragmatic theory which explaíns how this interpretation comes about, and what ís semantics and what is pragmatics in it. Finally, in the fourth chapter we perform two psycholinguistícs experiments aíming at verifyíng the existence of some empirical grounds (i.e., reading time) sustaíníng coercion or type-mismatch, postulated to account for sentences as "'João leu o livro por 1 semana". The analysis of experiments' results shows no significative difference in reading time between, e.g., "João leu o livro por 1 semana" and "João leu o livro em 1 semana" ("John read a book in 1 week"). Gíven this result and the semantic-pragmatic approach sketched here, we claím that the notion of coercion is unnecessary to ::.ccount for the phenomenon of detelicization / Mestrado / Mestre em Linguística

The current study investigated the influence of the Swedish writing system on the mental representation of temporal succession in adult Swedish speakers. The hypotheses predicted that the temporal succession should follow the direction of the Swedish writing system among the tested participants, and that there would be some variation in the group due to individual reading habits. The results of the experiment showed that a majority (approximately 85 %) of the participants did follow the direction of the writing system, such that they had a preference for a direction from left-to-right, while the rest of the participants had a preference for opposite right-to-left direction. The quantitative calculations revealed that the variables of age and the frequency of reading novels accounted for the variation in the sample. The hypothesis that the majority of the participants represented temporal succession in accordance with the directionality of the Swedish writing system was therefore confirmed, as well as the hypothesis that there would be a possible variation due to individual reading habits.

Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

La recherche d'invariants phonétiques ou phonologiques dans un corpus tel que les nursery rhymes nous a amené à les collecter, à les contraster et à les analyser. La collecte finale se fit grâce au dictionnaire des nursery rhymes, compilé par les folkloristes anglais, Peter et Iona Opie, une anthologie étymologique de référence. Ils passèrent de nombreuses années à répertorier toutes sortes de nursery rhymes, anciennes et récentes, populaires et inconnues. Le but de la collecte de ce corpus était de la faire de façon globale et neutre sans apport initial d'enfants. La deuxième étape fut une réflexion sur leur identité et leur forme ce qui aboutit au constat qu'une comptine n'en était une que si elle continuait à exister. Faisant partie de la tradition orale, la nursery rhyme doit être récitée, scandée régulièrement par un public précis pour qu'elle se transmette et continue son parcours intergénérationnel . Un sondage fut mis en place auprès d'une centaine d'enfants anglophones qui contrastèrent le corpus global en deux entités. Le résultat fit apparaître un corpus de comptine toujours connues et récitables par les sondés et un autre corpus de comptines oubliées. A partir de ces deux nouveaux corpus, une analyse phonétique fut entreprise pour dégager un ou des invariants inhérents à la condition de nursery rhyme. En couplant le premier et le dernier son-consonne accentué de chaque vers de chaque comptine et en prenant la place de l'articulation comme mesure de référence, il se dégage deux mouvements majoritaires dans leur énonciation, un mouvement d'arrière en avant pour les comptines populaires et un mouvement d'avant en arrière pour celles qui sont oubliées. / The search for phonetic or phonological invariants in nursery rhymes made us collect them globally, contrast them through a survey and analyse them. The Opies, British folklorists, published an Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes which became our primary source of material as their precious collection of rhymes had the advantage of being global and objective. Once the corpus established, it became obvious that these nursery rhymes had different statuses as to their popularity among children. The need to contrast them was necessary. A survey was set up and presented to more than a hundred English-speaking children. It resulted in 2 sub-corpuses, popular nursery rhymes (PNR) and forgotten ones (FNR). The question was what made them belong to one or the other? A phonetic analysis was ploughed through the corpuses. By pairing the first and the last stressed consonant-sound of every verse of every nursery rhyme and taking the place of articulation as reference, 2 major opposite enunciative movements arose, a back-to-front movement (B2F) for popular nursery rhymes and a front-to-back movement (F2B) for the forgotten ones.

Comment les mots sont-ils reconnus? Comment avons-nous accès à la signification des mots? Ces questions ont été explorées dans des études sur l'accès lexical et la reconnaissance des mots durant le demi-siècle dernier dans les domaines de la psycho-, neuro- et de la linguistique. Le traitement morphologique est un niveau essentiel de traitement pour l'extraction d'information lors de la reconnaissance de mots. A un extrême, les modèles de pleine-entrée proposent le stockage du mot entier dans la mémoire et un traitement morphologique post-lexical paradigmatiques; à l'autre extrême, les modèles décompositionnels proposent une décomposition pré-lexicale et une activation morphologique basée sur des règles; entre les deux, les modèles à double-mécanismes postulent deux voies pour la reconnaissance des mots, une route associative avec les mots entiers et une route combinatoire basée sur des règles. Dans la présente thèse, le traitement morphologique des verbes fléchis en français a été étudié en modalité visuelle dans cinq études. L'étude 1 a recherché à mettre à jour l'organisation du lexique mental en utilisant les effets de fréquences de surface et les effets de fréquences cumulée; l'étude 2 a exploré l'impact des différents processus de formation du radical verbal; l'étude 3 a étudié les opérations morphologiques au travers des suffixes flexionnels; l'étude 4 a testé le traitement morphologique verbal pour des locuteurs de français comme L2; et l'étude 5 a exploré les violations morphologiques verbales via des mesures électro-encéphalographiques. Globalement les résultats suggèrent que tous les verbes français fléchis sont traités par un mécanisme unique avec décomposition morphologique pré-lexicale pour l'accès lexical et la reconnaissance des mots. Il est proposé un traitement différent pour les morphèmes lexicaux et fonctionnels. Les mots sont décomposés en morphèmes atomiques, les représentations morphologiques sont activées dans le lexique mental, et les constituants de mots sont recombinés pour la vérification de mot / How words are recognized? How do we process word meaning? These questions have been pursued in lexical access and word recognition studies in the last half century of research in psycho-, neuro-, and linguistics. Morphological processing is an essential level of processing for information extraction during word recognition. In one extreme, full-entry models propose whole word storage in memory and post-lexical morphological processing based on paradigms; in the other extreme, decompositional models posit pre-lexical decomposition and morphemic activation based on rules; between then, dual-mechanism models consider two routes for word recognition, a whole-word associative route and a combinatorial rule-based route. In the present thesis, it was investigated the morphological processing of French inflected verbs in visual modality in five studies. Study 1 researched the mental lexicon organization in function of surface and cumulative frequencies; Study 2 explored different stem formation processes; Study 3 investigated morphological operations in the inflectional suffixes; Study 4 tested the verbal morphological processing in L2 French speakers; and Study 5 tested verbal violations coupled with electroencephalography acquisition. The results suggest that all inflected French verbs are processed by a single-mechanism model with pre-lexical morphological decomposition for lexical activation and word recognition. It is proposed different processing for the lexical and functional morphemes. Words are decomposed in atomic morphemes, morphemic representations are activated in the mental lexicon, and word constituents are recombined for word verification

La grammaire - longtemps considérée comme routinière, ennuyeuse et formaliste - est un objet de réflexions au centre de nouvelles préoccupations en matière d'enseignement. En témoignent les programmes mettant en avant l'importa,ce de notions relatives à l'énonciation, à la cohésion textuelle, à côté des études relatives à la grammaire de phrase. Ce travail vise à contribuer aux réflexions sur l'acquisition de cette discipline. Il se matérialise autour de la phrase et de la ponctuation. Qu'est-ce que la phrase ? La ponctuation ? Une connaissance spontanée ? Un savoir appris à l'école ? Comment donner du sens à cet enseignement ? Comment le penser ? L'organiser ? C'est autour de ces questions que s'organise ce travail : une première partie regroupe les principaux courants grammaticaux "classiques" et "contemporains" qui ont eu un impact durable sur l'enseignement de la phrase et de la ponctuation ; une deuxième porte sur une synthèse des fondements de l'enseignement et de l'apprentissage de la grammaire, mis en lumière par les recherches récentes dans les domaines de la psychologie cognitive et de la didactique ; une troisième s'attache à analyser les manuels d'enseignement et autres documents didactiques utilisés dans les salles de classe ; une quatrième enfin livre les conclusions auxquelles nous sommes parvenus au terme de plusieurs expériences menées dans des classes de CP et de CE1 : l'une sur l'approche de la phrase en contexte, l'autre sur l'approche du système de ponctuation. De ce travail, nous retenons que nos propositions didactiques peuvent réconcilier les élèves avec la grammaire, et plus particulièrement avec la ponctuation, bête noire de la production écrite. / Grammar - regarded a long time as routine, tedious and formal - is an object of reflexions in the center of new concerns as regards teaching. In the programs testify proposing the importance to concepts relating to the stating, with textual cohesion, beside the relative studies with the grammar of sentence. This work aims at contributing to the reflexions on the acquisition of this discipline. It materializes around the sentence and of the punctuation. What the sentence ? The punctuation ? A spontaneous knowledge ? A knowledge learned at school ? How to give direction to this teaching ? How to think it ? To organize ? It is around these questions that this work is organized : a first part gathers the principal grammatical currents "traditional" and "contemporaries" who had a durable impact on the teaching of the sentence and the punctuation ; a second door on a synthesis of the bases of teaching and training of the grammar, clarified by recent research in the fields of cognitive psychology and the didactic one ; a third attempts to analyse handbook of teaching and other didactic documents used in classrooms ; a fourth finally delivers the conclusions to which we arrived at the end of several experiments undertaken in classes of CP and CE1 : one on the approach of the sentence in context, the other on the approach of the system of punctuation. Of this work, we retain that our didactic proposals can reconcile pupils with grammar, and more particularly with the punctuation, pet peeve of the written production.