TY - BOOK ID - 735537 TI - Language-specific factors in first language acquisition : the expression of motion events in french and german PY - 2012 VL - 48 SN - 18614248 SN - 9781614512264 1614512264 9781614511748 1614511748 1299718957 PB - Berlin: de Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - French language KW - German language KW - Education, Bilingual -- United States. KW - English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. KW - Language arts. KW - Language acquisition KW - Semantics, Comparative KW - English language KW - Education, Bilingual KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Acquisition KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers KW - Language acquisition. KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Child Language Development. KW - French. KW - German. KW - Language Acquisition. KW - Semantics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:735537 AB - A growing number of studies have begun to examine the influence of language-specific factors on language acquisition. During language acquisition, German children from six years on use structures that are similar to those of adults in their language group and also encode all semantic components from an early age. In striking contrast, French children up to ten years have difficulties producing some of the complex structures that are necessary for the simultaneous expression of several semantic components. Nonetheless, in addition to these striking cross-linguistic differences, the results of ER -