French acquisition

[Johanne Paradis]

Dear Annabelle:

Here are some references on bilingual and monolingual French L1
morphosyntactic development:

Clark, E. (1986).  The acquisition of Romance with special reference to
French.  In Slobin (Ed) The crosslinguistic study of language acquistion,
vol 7.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum

Ferdinand, A.  (1996).  The development of functional categories.  The
acquisition of the subject in French.  Dordrecht: ICG Printing.

Meisel, J, (1994).  Bilingual First Language Acquisition:  French and
German grammatical development.  Amsterdam:  Benjamins.

Pierce, A. (1992).  Language acquisition and syntactic theory.  Dordrecht:
Kluwer (crosslinguistic comparasion of English and French)

Paradis, J. & Genesee, F. (1996).  Syntactic acquisition in bilingual
children:  Autonomous or interdependent?  SSLA 18, 1-25.

Paradis, J. & Genesee, F. (1997).  On continuity and the acquisiiton of
functional categories in Bilingual First Language Acquisition.  Language
Acquisition, 6(2), 91-124.

You should also check out work by Aafke Hulk at the University of Amsterdam
- I don't have her refs handy.

Hope this helps,
Johanne




>Hello
>
>I am looking for studies that would have looked at the most common errors
>young children make while acquiring French as their first language. These
>errors are often sign of language development, for example
>overregularization:
>'tiender' for 'tenir'.
>There is a lot on english acquisition but I can't find any recent study
>regarding French.
>
>Does anybody have any suggestion?
>
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