Prévost Philippe, Paradis Johanne (editors). The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories

John Benjamins, 2004. — 392 pages. — (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, vol. 32). — ISBN10: 1588114554; ISBN13: 978-15881145562004This 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.L1 and SLI
Functional categories and the acquisition of distance quantification
Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 French
Comparing L2 and SLI grammars in child French: Focus on DP
Comparing the development of the nominal and the verbal functional domain in French Language Impairment
SLA and bilingualism
On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languages
Explaining the acquisition and non-acquisition of determiner-noun gender concord in French and Spanish
Functional categories and the acquisition of object clitics in L2 French
The acquisition of the French DP in a bilingual context
Null-arguments in bilingual children: French topics
The semantic and aspectual properties of child L2 root infinitives
Cliticisation in the acquisition of French as L1 and L2