Malin Ågren

List of John Benjamins publications for which Malin Ågren plays a role.

Title

French liaison in second language acquisition / La liaison en français langue étrangère: Issues, methods and perspectives / Thèmes, méthodes et perspectives

Edited by Martin Howard and Malin Ågren

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 10:1 (2019) v, 139 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism

Articles (7) | Order by:

Ågren, Malin 2025 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014 Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research, Howard, Martin (ed.), pp. 128–153 | Chapter

This chapter focuses on L2 French and offers an overview of research methods used in the domain of French inflectional morphology. More precisely, the chapter describes and exemplifies methodological approaches, study designs, and data collection procedures used in studies on L2 development of… read more

Howard, Martin and Malin Ågren 2019 Introduction: French liaison in second language acquisition French liaison in second language acquisition / La liaison en français langue étrangère: Issues, methods and perspectives / Thèmes, méthodes et perspectives, Howard, Martin and Malin Ågren (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction

This introduction to the special issue presents a brief overview of the phonological phenomenon of liaison in French, drawing on the morphosyntactic contexts of its use by native speakers. We outline previous research on liaison in second language acquisition, focusing on the challenges this… read more

Howard, Martin et Malin Ågren 2019 Introduction: La liaison en français langue étrangère French liaison in second language acquisition / La liaison en français langue étrangère: Issues, methods and perspectives / Thèmes, méthodes et perspectives, Howard, Martin and Malin Ågren (eds.), pp. 11–21 | Introduction

Dans cette introduction, nous caractérisons le phénomène phonologique que constitue la liaison en français en faisant référence à ses contextes d’emploi morphosyntaxiques. Ensuite, nous présentons un court survol des recherches antérieures sur l’acquisition de la liaison en langue seconde du… read more

Ågren, Malin and Joost van de Weijer 2019 The production of preverbal liaison in Swedish learners of L2 French French liaison in second language acquisition / La liaison en français langue étrangère: Issues, methods and perspectives / Thèmes, méthodes et perspectives, Howard, Martin and Malin Ågren (eds.), pp. 117–139 | Article

The acquisition of preverbal liaison (e.g. ils arrivent /ilzaʀiv/) in second language (L2) French has rarely been explored in detail in previous studies on obligatory liaison. In this study, we conducted an elicited imitation test in order to study the influence of proficiency level, modality… read more

Ågren, Malin, Jonas Granfeldt and Anita Thomas 2014 Combined effects of age of onset and input on the development of different grammatical structures: A study of simultaneous and successive bilingual acquisition of French Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:4, pp. 462–493 | Article

This study investigates the combined effects of Age of Onset of Acquisition (AOA) and quality and quantity of input on the development of three grammatical structures in French. In a longitudinal and multiple case study including successive (L2) Swedish-French bilingual children (n = 3),… read more

Ågren, Malin and Joost van de Weijer 2013 Number problems in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children: A production/comprehension divide Language, Interaction and Acquisition 4:1, pp. 25–50 | Article

The present study focuses on the acquisition of subject–verb agreement in number in spoken French. We compare production and comprehension of singular and plural verb forms in French monolingual and French-Swedish bilingual children (n = 58) aged five to ten. Overall, the results demonstrate that… read more

Ågren, Malin, Jonas Granfeldt and Suzanne Schlyter 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