Prévost / Prevost The Acquisition of French

The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8885-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 51, 478 Seiten

Reihe: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the theoretical framework of generative grammar. This approach allows for multiple comparisons across acquisition contexts, which provides the reader with invaluable insights into the nature of the acquisition process. The book is divided into four parts each dealing with a major morphosyntactic domain of acquisition: the verbal domain, the pronominal domain, the nominal domain, and the CP domain. Each part contains four chapters, the first one presenting an overview of the basic facts and analyses of the relevant properties of French, and the next three focusing on the different acquisition contexts. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of French and in language development in general. It is also meant to stimulate cross-linguistic research from a theoretical perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prévost, Philippe

Prevost, Philippe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Part I. The verbal domain
Chapter 1. The verbal domain: Syntactic assumptions
Chapter 2. The verbal domain in child L1 French
Chapter 3. The verbal domain in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
Chapter 4. The verbal domain in French L2 acquisition
Part II. Subject and object pronouns
Chapter 5. Subject and object pronouns: Morphosyntactic background
Chapter 6. Subject and object pronouns in child L1 French
Chapter 7. Subject and object pronouns in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
Chapter 8. Subject and object pronouns in L2 French acquisition
Part III. Determiner phrases
Chapter 9. Determiner phrases: Morphosyntactic assumptions
Chapter 10. Determiner phrases in child L1 French
Chapter 11. The development of DPs in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
Chapter 12. Determiner phrases in L2 French acquisition
Part IV. Questions and embedded clauses
Chapter 13. Questions and embedded clauses in French: Facts and analyses
Chapter 14. Questions and embedded clauses in child L1 French
Chapter 15. The development of questions and embedded clauses in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
Chapter 16. Questions and embedded clauses in L2 French acquisition
Conclusion
References
Author index
Subject index