Acquisition of French in different contexts : focus on functional categories, The

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
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 rang.