The acquisition of French : the development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition / Philippe Prévost.

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 t...

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Main Author: Prévost, Philippe, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 51.
Language acquisition & language disorders. Monographs on the acquisition of specific languages ; 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The verbal domain
  • The verbal domain: syntactic assumptions
  • The verbal domain in child L1 French
  • The verbal domain in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
  • The verbal domain in French L2 acquisition
  • Part II. Subject and object pronouns
  • Subject and object pronouns: morphosyntactic background
  • Subject and object pronouns in child L1 French
  • Subject and object pronouns in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
  • Subject and object pronouns in L2 French acquisition
  • Part III. Determiner phrases
  • Determiner phrases: morphosyntactic assumptions
  • Determiner phrases in child L1 French
  • The development of DPs in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
  • Determiner phrases in L2 French acquisition
  • Part IV. Questions and embedded clauses
  • Questions and embedded clauses in French: facts and analyses
  • Questions and embedded clauses in child L1 French
  • The development of questions and embedded clauses in French bilingual acquisition and in children with SLI learning French
  • Questions and embedded clauses in L2 French acquisition
  • Conclusion
  • References.