UID:
almafu_9959240057202883
Format:
vii, 381 p.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4237-7236-9
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9786612255274
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1-282-25527-4
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90-272-9577-8
Series Statement:
Language acquisition & language disorders, v. 32
Content:
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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Functional categories in the acquisition of French -- 1. Functional categories and their role in acquisition -- 2. Why conduct cross-learner comparisons? -- 3. Generalizations about functional category acquisition across learner contexts -- 4. Chapter summaries -- 4.1. Chapters on L1 acquisition, with and without SLI -- 4.2. Chapters on L2 and bilingual L1 acquisition -- Notes -- References -- Part 1. L1 and SLI -- Functional categories and the acquisition of distance quantification -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The syntax of quantifiers -- 2.1. Floated quantifiers (FQ) -- 2.2. Quantification at a distance (QAD) -- 3. Experiments -- 3.1. Experiment 1 - beaucoup -- 3.2. Experiment 2 - chacun -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix 1 - Experiment 1 with beaucoup -- Appendix 2 - Experiment 1 with chacun -- References -- Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 French -- 1. Introduction and background -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. Hypothesis 1: Pronominal AHSs are true subjects in the default case -- 3.1. Patterns of Agreement and Tense specification in child French -- 3.2. Predictions of the ATOM for child French -- 3.3. Child French does not behave as predicted under the ATOM -- 4. Hypothesis 2: Pronominal AHSs are dislocated subjects with a missing resumptive -- 4.1. There are clear dislocated pronominal subjects in child French -- 4.2. Predictions of the dislocation analysis of AHSs -- 4.3. Acoustic evidence -- 4.4. Distributional evidence -- 4.5. Additional evidence -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Comparing L2 and SLI grammars in child French: Focus on DP -- 1.1. DP in French and English -- 1.2. DP Acquisition in SLI Romance -- 1.3. DP Acquisition in L2 Romance.
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1.4. Predictions for French L2 and French SLI -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Participants and procedures -- 2.2. Coding and analysis -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Note -- References -- Comparing the development of the nominal and the verbal functional domain in French Language Impairment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1. Observations on the development of functional categories in French unimpaired children -- 2.2. Observations on the development of functional categories in French children with SLI -- 2.3. Theoretical approaches to determiner omission in (normal) language development -- 2.4. Structure of this chapter -- 3. Method -- 3.1. Participants -- 3.2. Data analysis -- 4. Determiner omissions and non-finite constructions -- 4.1. Normally developing French children -- 4.2. French children with SLI -- 5. Determiner drop and the omission of complement clitics -- 5.1. Normally developing French children -- 5.2. French children with SLI -- 6. Other observations on determiner omission -- 6.1. Unexpected subjects -- 6.2. The context of overt prepositions -- 6.3. Initial/non-initial and subject/object contexts -- 7. Problems with free or with bound morphology? -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Part 2. SLA and bilingualism -- On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A language comparison -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. German pronouns and clitics -- 3. The method and first measure of proficiency -- 3.1. Exposure -- 3.2. Preference for target or source language -- 4. Results -- 4.1. Functional categories, root infinitives and null subjects -- 4.2. Transfer phenomena -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix -- References -- Explaining the acquisition and non-acquisition of determiner-noun gender concord in French and Spanish.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Gender concord in the French and Spanish DP -- 3. A generative model of gender concord in the DP -- 4. Gender concord in the context of acquisition -- 4.1. The development of D-N gender concord in L1 French and Spanish -- 4.2. The development of D-N gender concord in L2 French and Spanish -- 5. Further evidence for the proposal from language processing, code-switching and language impairment -- 6. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Functional categories and the acquisition of object clitics in L2 French -- Introduction1 -- 1. Theory -- 1.1. French and English pronouns -- 1.2. Theoretical analysis -- 1.3. L2 Functional categories -- 2. Empirical data -- 2.1. Previous L2 studies -- 2.2. L1 studies -- 2.3. Current study -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1. Structure Building vs. FT/FA -- 3.2. Availability of UG -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Tokens of object pronouns/clitics, Emma and Chloe -- Appendix 2: Grammaticality judgement sentences with pronouns/clitics -- References -- The acquisition of the French DP in a bilingual context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The development of lexical determiners -- 3.1. Frequency -- 3.2. Order of appearance -- 3.3. Number and gender errors -- 3.4. The internal structure of the DP -- 4. Developmental links -- 4.1. Specificity in the clausal and the nominal domain -- 4.2. Object clitics and definite determiners in Anouk -- 4.3. Root Infinitives and determiners in Anouk's data -- 5. Cross-linguistic influence? -- 5.1. Acquiring two languages from birth -- 5.2. From bare N to full DP in monolingual child French -- 5.3. The internal structure of the DP and the position of adjectives -- 5.4. Developmental links between the nominal and the clausal domain. -- 5.5. Cross-linguistic influence? -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.
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Null-arguments in bilingual children: French topics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language separation and crosslinguistic influence -- 3. Omissions in monolinguals -- 3.1. Adult German -- 3.2. Child German -- 3.3. Adult French -- 3.4. Child French -- 3.5. Summary and discussion of the monolingual data -- 4. Omissions in bilingual children's French -- 4.1. Previous studies -- 4.2. The bilingual child Céline -- 4.3. Objects -- 4.4. Subjects -- 4.5. Comparison with monolingual French children -- 4.6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- The semantic and aspectual properties of child L2 root infinitives -- Introduction -- 1. Semantic and aspectual properties of RIs in L1 acquisition -- 2. RIs in early child SLA -- 3. Predictions -- 4. The study -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Finiteness and verb-type -- 5.2. Finiteness and modality -- 5.3. DP and strong pronoun subjects in root declaratives -- 5.4. Verb-forms in subject questions -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Cliticisation in the acquisition of French as L1 and L2 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Pronouns and articles -- 2.2. Previous studies on the acquisition of clitics -- 2.3. Rationale and hypothesis -- 3. Corpus - the children and adults studied -- 4. Analysis of the data -- 4.1. Acquisition of subject pronouns -- 4.2. Acquisition of object pronouns -- 4.3. Acquisition of the definite article -- 5. Cliticisation and not - some possible explanations -- 6. General discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-5291-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58811-455-4
Language:
English
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