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Grammaticalization and first language acquisition – Crosslinguistic perspectives/Grammaticalisation et acquisition des langues premières - Perspectives interlangues
Edited by Dominique Bassano-Bonhommo and Maya Hickmann †
[Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2:1] 2011
► pp. 37–60

L’acquisition des déterminants nominaux en français et en allemand

Une perspective interlangue sur la grammaticalisation des noms

In many languages, noun determiner acquisition is a central aspect of the emergence of grammar in children. The study compares the development of determiners — between one and three years of age — in the spontaneous productions of two children who acquire French and Austrian German, respectively. Starting with the contrast between Romance and Germanic languages and focusing on morphosyntactic factors, it evaluates the impact of typological and language-specific differences on determiner acquisition. We examine the prediction that determiners should emerge earlier in French than in German and classical hypotheses concerning the pre-eminence of definite over indefinite, masculine over feminine, and singular over plural in the light of developmental data.
Keywords: acquisition et typologie, morphologie, déterminants nominaux, genre, nombre, (in)définitude
Published online: 27 June 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/lia.2.1.02bas
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