The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on Functional Categories

393 Pages·2004·1.91 MB·English

by  Philippe Prévost (Ed.)

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TheAcquisitionofFrenchinDifferentContexts
Language Acquisition & Language Disorders
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languageacquistion(firstandsecond,childandadult),languagelearnability,
languageattritionandlanguagedisorders.
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MaxPlanckInstitutfürPsycholinguistik,Nijmegen UniversityofSiena
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Volume32
TheAcquisitionofFrenchinDifferentContexts:
Focusonfunctionalcategories
EditedbyPhilippePrévostandJohanneParadis
The Acquisition of French in
Different Contexts
Focus on functional categories
Editedby
Philippe Prévost
LavalUniversity
Johanne Paradis
UniversityofAlberta
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Table of contents
Listofcontributors vii
FunctionalcategoriesintheacquisitionofFrench 1
JohanneParadisandPhilippePrévost
I. L1andSLI
Functionalcategoriesandtheacquisitionofdistancequantification 27
MarieLabelleandDanielValois
Apparentnon-nominativesubjectsinL1French 51
CécileDeCat
ComparingL2andSLIgrammarsinchildFrench:FocusonDP 89
JohanneParadisandMarthaCrago
Comparingthedevelopmentofthenominalandtheverbal
functionaldomaininFrenchLanguageImpairment 109
CorneliaHamann
II. SLAandbilingualism
OntheL2/bilingualacquisitionofFrenchbytwoyoungchildren
withdifferentsourcelanguages 147
AdrianaBellettiandCorneliaHamann
Explainingtheacquisitionandnon-acquisitionofdeterminer-noun
genderconcordinFrenchandSpanish 175
RogerHawkinsandFlorenciaFranceschina
FunctionalcategoriesandtheacquisitionofobjectcliticsinL2French 207
JuliaHerschensohn
TheacquisitionoftheFrenchDPinabilingualcontext 243
AafkeHulk
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 Tableofcontents
Null-argumentsinbilingualchildren:Frenchtopics 275
NataschaMüller
ThesemanticandaspectualpropertiesofchildL2rootinfinitives 305
PhilippePrévost
CliticisationintheacquisitionofFrenchasL1andL2 333
JonasGranfeldtandSuzanneSchlyter
Nameindex 371
Subjectindex 377
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List of contributors
AdrianaBelletti JuliaHerschensohn
UniversityofSiena UniversityofWashington
MarthaCrago AafkeHulk
McGillUniversity UtrechtUniversity
CécileDeCat MarieLabelle
UniversityofYork UniversitéduQuébecàMontréal
FlorenciaFranceschina NataschaMüller
UniversityofEssex UniversityofHamburg
JonasGranfeldt JohanneParadis
LundUniversity UniversityofAlberta
CorneliaHamann PhilippePrévost
UniversityofGenevaand LavalUniversity
UniversityofTübingen
SuzanneSchlyter
RogerHawkins LundUniversity
UniversityofEssex
DanielValois
UniversitédeMontréal

Functional categories in the
acquisition of French
JohanneParadisandPhilippePrévost
Ourobjectiveforthisvolumewastobringtogetherrecentgenerativeresearch
onthenatureofthegrammarsdevelopedbyFrenchlearnersindifferentacqui-
sition contexts, namely first language (L1) acquisition, second language (L2)
acquisition, bilingual first language acquisition and specifically-language im-
pairedacquisition.Thedevelopmentoffunctionalcategorieshasbeenthetopic
of intense research in the past decade in each of these acquisition domains
to the extent that acquisition of functional categories has become the domi-
nantlineofinquiryintheresearchonsyntacticdevelopmentinthegenerative
framework. However, the research in each acquisition context has been pur-
sued quite independentlyof work in the other domains, and this is reflected
inthemainlysingle-learnercontextreportsintheliterature.Atthesametime,
and precisely because of the vast number of studies on each kind of learner,
therecurrentlyisagrowingtendencyforresearcherstocomparetheirstudies
to those conducted with a different population. Indeed, most of the general
questionsinvestigatedin each acquisition domain are strikinglysimilar, such
as the status of functional categories in developinggrammars, or whether or
notlearners’systemsaredeficientwithrespecttofunctionalcategoriesand/or
features. The idea behind comparing research carried out in various acqui-
sition contexts is to find out what diverse learner populations can teach us
about functional categories in developing grammars: What are the similari-
ties and differences across acquisition contexts? What is the impact of these
similaritiesanddifferencesonaunifiedtheoryofsyntacticacquisition?What
differentkindsofresearchmethodsareusedandhowdoesthatinfluencethe
comparabilityofthefindings?
Thecollectionofstudiesinthisvolumeprovidesauniqueopportunityfor
readersto see how similar issues and syntactic properties can be investigated