The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories: 32 (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027252912 ISBN 13: 9789027252913

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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) 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.

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Synopsis

The development of functional categories has been the topic of intense research in the past decade in each of the acquisition domains, to the extent that acquisition of functional categories has become the dominant line of enquiry in the research on syntactic development in the generative framework. This volume aims to bring together generative research on the nature of the grammars developed by French learners in different acquisition contexts, namely first language acquisition, second language acquisition, bilingual first language acquisition and specifically-language impaired acquisition.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027252912
• ISBN 13: 9789027252913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Prevost Philippe, Paradis Johanne