The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Functional categories in the acquisition of French -- 1. Functional categories and their role in acquisition -- 2. Why conduct cross-learner comparisons? -- 3. Generalizations about functional category acquisition across learner contexts -- 4. Chapter summaries -- 4.1. Chapters on L1 acquisition, with and without SLI -- 4.2. Chapters on L2 and bilingual L1 acquisition -- Notes -- References -- Part 1. L1 and SLI -- Functional categories and the acquisition of distance quantification -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The syntax of quantifiers -- 2.1. Floated quantifiers (FQ) -- 2.2. Quantification at a distance (QAD) -- 3. Experiments -- 3.1. Experiment 1 - beaucoup -- 3.2. Experiment 2 - chacun -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix 1 - Experiment 1 with beaucoup -- Appendix 2 - Experiment 1 with chacun -- References -- Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 French -- 1. Introduction and background -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. Hypothesis 1: Pronominal AHSs are true subjects in the default case -- 3.1. Patterns of Agreement and Tense specification in child French -- 3.2. Predictions of the ATOM for child French -- 3.3. Child French does not behave as predicted under the ATOM -- 4. Hypothesis 2: Pronominal AHSs are dislocated subjects with a missing resumptive -- 4.1. There are clear dislocated pronominal subjects in child French -- 4.2. Predictions of the dislocation analysis of AHSs -- 4.3. Acoustic evidence -- 4.4. Distributional evidence -- 4.5. Additional evidence -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Comparing L2 and SLI grammars in child French: Focus on DP -- 1.1. DP in French and English -- 1.2. DP Acquisition in SLI Romance -- 1.3. DP Acquisition in L2 Romance.

1.4. Predictions for French L2 and French SLI -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Participants and procedures -- 2.2. Coding and analysis -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Note -- References -- Comparing the development of the nominal and the verbal functional domain in French Language Impairment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1. Observations on the development of functional categories in French unimpaired children -- 2.2. Observations on the development of functional categories in French children with SLI -- 2.3. Theoretical approaches to determiner omission in (normal) language development -- 2.4. Structure of this chapter -- 3. Method -- 3.1. Participants -- 3.2. Data analysis -- 4. Determiner omissions and non-finite constructions -- 4.1. Normally developing French children -- 4.2. French children with SLI -- 5. Determiner drop and the omission of complement clitics -- 5.1. Normally developing French children -- 5.2. French children with SLI -- 6. Other observations on determiner omission -- 6.1. Unexpected subjects -- 6.2. The context of overt prepositions -- 6.3. Initial/non-initial and subject/object contexts -- 7. Problems with free or with bound morphology? -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Part 2. SLA and bilingualism -- On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A language comparison -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. German pronouns and clitics -- 3. The method and first measure of proficiency -- 3.1. Exposure -- 3.2. Preference for target or source language -- 4. Results -- 4.1. Functional categories, root infinitives and null subjects -- 4.2. Transfer phenomena -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix -- References -- Explaining the acquisition and non-acquisition of determiner-noun gender concord in French and Spanish.

1. Introduction -- 2. Gender concord in the French and Spanish DP -- 3. A generative model of gender concord in the DP -- 4. Gender concord in the context of acquisition -- 4.1. The development of D-N gender concord in L1 French and Spanish -- 4.2. The development of D-N gender concord in L2 French and Spanish -- 5. Further evidence for the proposal from language processing, code-switching and language impairment -- 6. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Functional categories and the acquisition of object clitics in L2 French -- Introduction1 -- 1. Theory -- 1.1. French and English pronouns -- 1.2. Theoretical analysis -- 1.3. L2 Functional categories -- 2. Empirical data -- 2.1. Previous L2 studies -- 2.2. L1 studies -- 2.3. Current study -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1. Structure Building vs. FT/FA -- 3.2. Availability of UG -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Tokens of object pronouns/clitics, Emma and Chloe -- Appendix 2: Grammaticality judgement sentences with pronouns/clitics -- References -- The acquisition of the French DP in a bilingual context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The development of lexical determiners -- 3.1. Frequency -- 3.2. Order of appearance -- 3.3. Number and gender errors -- 3.4. The internal structure of the DP -- 4. Developmental links -- 4.1. Specificity in the clausal and the nominal domain -- 4.2. Object clitics and definite determiners in Anouk -- 4.3. Root Infinitives and determiners in Anouk's data -- 5. Cross-linguistic influence? -- 5.1. Acquiring two languages from birth -- 5.2. From bare N to full DP in monolingual child French -- 5.3. The internal structure of the DP and the position of adjectives -- 5.4. Developmental links between the nominal and the clausal domain. -- 5.5. Cross-linguistic influence? -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Null-arguments in bilingual children: French topics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language separation and crosslinguistic influence -- 3. Omissions in monolinguals -- 3.1. Adult German -- 3.2. Child German -- 3.3. Adult French -- 3.4. Child French -- 3.5. Summary and discussion of the monolingual data -- 4. Omissions in bilingual children's French -- 4.1. Previous studies -- 4.2. The bilingual child Céline -- 4.3. Objects -- 4.4. Subjects -- 4.5. Comparison with monolingual French children -- 4.6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- The semantic and aspectual properties of child L2 root infinitives -- Introduction -- 1. Semantic and aspectual properties of RIs in L1 acquisition -- 2. RIs in early child SLA -- 3. Predictions -- 4. The study -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Finiteness and verb-type -- 5.2. Finiteness and modality -- 5.3. DP and strong pronoun subjects in root declaratives -- 5.4. Verb-forms in subject questions -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Cliticisation in the acquisition of French as L1 and L2 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Pronouns and articles -- 2.2. Previous studies on the acquisition of clitics -- 2.3. Rationale and hypothesis -- 3. Corpus - the children and adults studied -- 4. Analysis of the data -- 4.1. Acquisition of subject pronouns -- 4.2. Acquisition of object pronouns -- 4.3. Acquisition of the definite article -- 5. Cliticisation and not - some possible explanations -- 6. General discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS.