Functional Categories in Child L2 Acquisition of French.

Grondin, Nathalie; White, Lydia

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ERIC Number: EJ526176

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Publication Date: 1996

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Functional Categories in Child L2 Acquisition of French.

Grondin, Nathalie; White, Lydia

Language Acquisition, v5 n1 p1-34 1996

Investigates the functional projections in second-language (L2) acquisition by examining the emergence of functional categories in the L2 acquisition of French by children. Data include the productive use of determiners, inflection, case marking, subject clitics, wh-questions, and correct negative placement. (57 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Determiners (Languages), Foreign Countries, French, Grammar, Interviews, Kindergarten Children, Language Universals, Longitudinal Studies, Morphology (Languages), Negative Forms (Language), Nouns, Oral Language, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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