The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts
Focus on functional categories
Editors
This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories) across different contexts in French learners: i.e. first language acquisition, second language acquisition, bilingual first language acquisition and specifically-language impaired acquisition. This permits readers to see how similar issues and morphosyntactic properties can be investigated in a range of various acquisition situations, and in turn, how each context can contribute to our general understanding of how these morphosyntactic properties are acquired in all learners of the same language. This state-of-the-art collection is enhanced by an introductory chapter that provides background on current formal generative theory, as well as a summary and synthesis of the major trends emerging from the individual studies regarding the acquisition of different functional categories across different learner contexts in French.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 32] 2004. viii, 384 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | p. vii
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Functional categories in the acquisition of FrenchJohanne Paradis and Philippe Prévost | pp. 1–23
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I. L1 and SLI
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Functional categories and the acquisition of distance quantificationMarie Labelle and Daniel Valois | pp. 27–49
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Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 FrenchCécile De Cat | pp. 51–88
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Comparing L2 and SLI grammars in child French: Focus on DPJohanne Paradis and Martha Crago | pp. 89–107
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Comparing the development of the nominal and the verbal functional domain in French Language ImpairmentCornelia Hamann | pp. 109–144
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II. SLA and bilingualism
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On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languagesAdriana Belletti and Cornelia Hamann | pp. 147–174
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Explaining the acquisition and non-acquisition of determiner-noun gender concord in French and SpanishRoger Hawkins and Florencia Franceschina | pp. 175–205
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Functional categories and the acquisition of object clitics in L2 FrenchJulia Herschensohn | pp. 207–242
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The acquisition of the French DP in a bilingual contextAafke Hulk | pp. 243–274
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Null-arguments in bilingual children: French topicsNatascha Müller | pp. 275–304
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The semantic and aspectual properties of child L2 root infinitivesPhilippe Prévost | pp. 305–331
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Cliticisation in the acquisition of French as L1 and L2Jonas Granfeldt and Suzanne Schlyter | pp. 333–370
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Name index | pp. 371–375
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Subject index | pp. 377–381
“The studies show the benefit of thorough review. the conclusiveness of many of the findings is limited by small sample size, but the states of knowledge about the acquisition of functional categories and the remaining research questions are very well represented.”
Theresa McGarry, East Tennessee State University, in Language 83(2), 2007
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDC: Language acquisition
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2003062911