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The acquisition of French in different contexts : focus on functional categories / / edited by Philippe Prevost, Johanne Paradis
| The acquisition of French in different contexts : focus on functional categories / / edited by Philippe Prevost, Johanne Paradis |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | vii, 381 p |
| Disciplina | 418 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
PrevostPhilippe <1966->
ParadisJohanne |
| Collana | Language acquisition & language disorders |
| Soggetto topico |
Language acquisition
French language - Acquisition Bilingualism in children Specific language impairment in children |
| ISBN |
1-4237-7236-9
9786612255274 1-282-25527-4 90-272-9577-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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.
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. 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. 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818885103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inquiries in linguistic development : in honor of Lydia White / / edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina A. Montrul, Philippe Prevost
| Inquiries in linguistic development : in honor of Lydia White / / edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina A. Montrul, Philippe Prevost |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | xv, 363 p |
| Disciplina | 401/.93 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SlabakovaRoumyana
MontrulSilvina PrevostPhilippe <1966-> WhiteLydia |
| Soggetto topico |
Linguistics
Language acquisition |
| ISBN |
1-282-15583-0
9786612155833 90-272-9353-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Inquiries in Linguistic Development -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Inquiries in linguistic development -- Introduction -- Part I: Learnability and parameter resetting -- Part II: Variability -- Part III: Incomplete ultimate attainment -- References -- Learnability and parameter setting -- `Passive' unaccusative errors in L2 English revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Yusa (2002, 2003) -- 3. Experimental study -- 3.1. Hypotheses -- 3.2. Participants -- 3.3. Task and materials -- 3.4. Results -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Manner-of-motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 English and Japanese -- Motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in English and Japanese -- Motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 acquisition -- Method -- Design -- Participants -- Materials -- Results -- The ESL study -- The JSL study -- Discussion -- The ESL study -- The JSL study -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A -- Example test item in the ESL study -- Appendix B -- Sentences included in the ESL picture-matching task -- Appendix C -- Example test item in the JSL study -- Appendix D -- Sentences included in the JSL picture-matching task -- A semantic parameter with a syntactic trigger in the L2 acquisition of Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies on L2 acquisition of DPs -- 3. The data and their analysis -- 4. Predictions for second language acquisition -- 5. The study -- 5.1. Participants -- 5.2. Tasks and materials -- 5.3. Group results -- 5.4. Individual results -- 6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Investigating the L2 initial state -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic background -- 3. Initial state hypotheses and predictions -- 3.1. Full Transfer -- 3.2. Minimal Trees -- 3.3. Structural Minimality -- 4. The experiment -- 4.1. Participants.
4.2. Procedure -- 4.3. Results -- 4.4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- L1 phonotactic knowledge and the L2 acquisition of alternations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The connection between phonotactics and alternations in acquisition -- 2.1. Studying the acquisition of alternations with L2 artificial language learning -- 3. The experiment -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Subjects -- 3.3. Testing and training -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Variability -- Morphological variability in the development of L2 French morphosyntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Impairment in L2 acquisition -- 3. L1 Influence and morphological variability -- 4. The study -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Finiteness errors -- 5.2. Nonfinite forms in finite positions (excluding negation) -- 5.3. Finite forms in nonfinite positions (excluding negation) -- 5.4. Finiteness errors in negative utterances -- 6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Full transfer vs. partial transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic assumptions -- 2.1. English and French -- 2.2. Chinese -- 2.3. Vietnamese -- 2.4. Summary of cross-linguistic facts on the verbal functional domain -- 3. Predictions -- 3.1. Full Transfer Full Access (FTFA) -- 3.2. Minimal Trees (MT) -- 3.3. Valueless Features Hypothesis (VFH) -- 4. Method -- 4.1. Participants -- 4.2. Experimental tasks -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Elicited written production task I: Composition on [1'301past] -- 5.2. Elicited written production task II: Sentence completion on adverb placement and agreement -- 5.3. Preference task I on agreement and [1'301past] -- 5.4. Preference task II on adverb placement -- 6. Summary of results, discussion and conclusion -- 6.1. L1 Vietnamese-L2 French initial state -- 6.2. L1 Chinese-L2 English-L3 French initial state -- Notes -- References -- Appendix. A representational licensing-based account of asymmetries in the L2 acquisition of place -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Representation, licensing and predictions for L2 acquisition -- 2.1. Binarity and the representation of final consonant clusters -- 2.2. Representation of place in consonants -- 2.3. Phonetic interpretation of phonological outputs -- 2.4. Phonological licensing: Asymmetries and parasitic licensing -- 2.5. Representation-based predictions for the acquisition of new, position-sensitive contrasts -- 3. L2 acquisition of place -- 3.1. Acquiring place in the dependent of a branching onset -- 3.2. Acquiring place in coda: Parasitic licensing -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Processing reduced relative versus main verb ambiguity in English as a second language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. The experiment with reduced relative clauses -- 3.1. Research questions -- 3.2. Participants -- 3.3. Six tasks -- 4. Results -- 4.1. Proficiency scores -- 4.2. Accuracy -- 4.3. Processing -- 4.4. Working memory and processing -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- References -- Appendix -- Formalism and functionalism working together? -- 1. Background -- 2. Grammatical approach -- 3. Performance approach -- 4. Discourse-pragmatics approach -- 5. Interplay between approaches -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Incomplete ultimate attainment -- L2 acquisition of pragmatic and syntactic constraints in the use of overt and null subject pronouns -- 1. L1 transfer in end-state L2 grammars -- 2. The null subject phenomenon -- 2.1. Empty categories and their overt counterparts -- 2.2. The overt pronoun constraint -- 3. Turkish: A null subject language -- 3.1. Grammatical sketch -- 4. Research questions -- 5. The study -- 5.1. The participants -- 5.2. Tests -- 6. Results and discussion. 6.1. Test 1: Picture selection task -- 6.2. Test 2: Written interpretation task -- 6.3. Test 3: Truth value judgment task (story task) -- 6.4. Test 4: Picture identification-listening task -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- L2 end state grammars and incomplete acquisition of Spanish CLLD constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Topic constructions in Spanish and English -- 3. Sorace's theory of optionality -- 4. Predictions for L2 -- 5. Experiment -- 5.1. Participants -- 5.2. Experimental tasks -- 5.3. Results -- 6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Knowledge of clitic doubling in Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dative clitic doubling in Spanish -- 2.1. Restrictions on incorporation in Spanish -- 3. Datives in English -- 4. Second language acquisition and knowledge of clitic doubling -- 4.1. Theoretical approaches to language acquisition -- 5. Methodology -- 5.1. Participants -- 5.2. Description of the test -- 6. Analysis of the results -- 6.1. Knowledge of basic incorporation -- 6.2. Results: Basic preposition incorporation -- 6.3. Constraints on incorporation: Affectedness -- 6.4. Constraint against double incorporation -- 6.5. Results: Affectedness and double incorporation -- 6.6. Constraint against incorporation in intransitive sentences -- 6.7. Results: Double incorporation -- 6.8. Incorporation and possessors -- 6.9. Results: Possessors -- 7. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- Incomplete acquisition as a feature of bilingual and L2 grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Simultaneous bilingual acquisition -- 2.1. The early years -- 2.2. The adult years -- 3. Incomplete acquisition in L1 and L2 -- 3.1. Some similarities -- 3.2. Some differences -- 4. Implications for the nature of bilingual grammars -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828405903321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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