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The acquisition of French in different contexts : focus on functional categories /
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) a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
2004.
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| Colección: | Language acquisition & language disorders ;
v. 32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- 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
- 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.