TY - BOOK ID - 77933726 TI - The acquisition of French PY - 2009 SN - 1282444921 9786612444920 9027288852 9789027288851 9789027253125 9027253129 9027253137 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co. DB - UniCat KW - Language acquisition. KW - French language KW - Second language acquisition. KW - Bilingualism in children. KW - Children KW - Second language learning 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 - Psycholinguistics KW - Acquisition. KW - Acquisition UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933726 AB - 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 theoretical framework of generative grammar. This approach allows for multiple comparisons across acquisition contexts, which provides the reader with invaluable insights into the nature of the acquisition process. The book is divided into four parts each dealing with a major morphosyntactic domain of acquisition: the verbal domain, the pronominal domain, the nominal domain, and the CP domain. Each part contains four chapters, the first one presenting an overview of the basic facts and analyses of the relevant properties of French, and the next three focusing on the different acquisition contexts. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of French and in language development in general. It is also meant to stimulate cross-linguistic research from a theoretical perspective. ER -