Suzanne Schlyter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Suzanne Schlyter plays a role.
2012 The growth of complexity and accuracy in L2 French: Past observations and recent applications of developmental stages Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA, Housen, Alex, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder (eds.), pp. 95–120 | Article
This chapter addresses the question of the growth of accuracy and complexity in L2 French from the perspective of developmental sequences of morphosyntax, developmental stages and linguistic profiling. The six developmental stages for L2 French proposed by Bartning and Schlyter (2004) are presented… read more
2011 Tense and Aspect in early French development in aL2, 2L1 and cL2 learners The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change, Rinke, Esther and Tanja Kupisch (eds.), pp. 47–74 | Article
In line with current research by Meisel (2008, 2009), this study discusses the nature of child second language (cL2) acquisition, compared with adult second language (aL2) acquisition and the development of two first languages (2L1). Early stages of tense-aspect acquisition of French are studied in… read more
2010 Chapter 13. The development of person-number verbal morphology
in different types of learners Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Kail, Michèle and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 249–265 | Article
In this chapter, the acquisition of French subject-verb agreement (in form of verbal inflections) in different types of learners is discussed. Different studies, essentially case studies on corpora of spontaneous spoken vs written adult L2 French (L1 Swedish), and on simultaneous bilingual… read more
2004 Cliticisation in the acquisition of French as L1 and L2 The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories, Prévost, Philippe and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 333–370 | Article
2003 Development of verb morphology and finiteness in children and adults acquiring French Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition, Dimroth, Christine and Marianne Starren (eds.), pp. 15–44 | Article