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Development of Object Clitics in Child L2 French A comparison of developmental sequences in different modes of acquisition

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Summary, in English

It has been argued that the study of child L2 development can inform different maturational accounts of language acquisition. One such specific proposal was put forward by Meisel (2008) arguing for a cut-off point for (2)L1 type of development at 3-4 years. The paper analyses the longitudinal development of object clitics in child L2 French (L1 Swedish) and compares the developmental sequence in child L2 learners (n=7) with different Ages of Onset of Acquisition (from 3;0 to 6;5) to the adult L2 sequence that was found in previous studies (Granfeldt & Schlyter, 2004). The study also includes age-matched simultaneous bilingual children (n=3) and monolingual controls (n= 5). The results show that some of the child L2 learners with an AoA above 4 years display structures that are typical for adult L2 acquisition, whereas these structures where not found in the

Department/s

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

140-162

Publication/Series

Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Volume

3

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • categorial uniformity
  • French
  • object clitics
  • bilingual acquisition
  • child L2 acquisition

Status

Published

Project

  • Age of onset and development of French

Research group

  • Fransk språkvetenskap

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1879-7865