The Acquisition of French in Multilingual Contexts - 9781783094523

The Acquisition of French in Multilingual ContextsAuthor(s): Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Katrin Schmitz, Natascha Mller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781783094523, 978-1783094523\nSynopsis\nThis volume brings together new research from different theoretical paradigms addressing the acquisition of French. It focuses on the acquisition of French in combination with English, German, Russian or Spanish and enriches our understanding of the particularities of French and the role of language combinations in the acquisition process. The chapters examine the development of different grammatical aspects (word order phenomena, adjective placement, dislocation and cleft constructions, wh-questions, DP phenomena, argument omissionsand constructions with particular word groups) and use various methodologies (such as elicitation tasks, longitudinal studies and parsing experiments) to further add to our understandin.