Language-Specific Factors in First Language Acquisition: The Expression of Motion Events in French and GermanA growing number of studies have begun to examine the influence of language-specific factors on language acquisition. During language acquisition, German children from six years on use structures that are similar to those of adults in their language group and also encode all semantic components from an early age. In striking contrast, French children up to ten years have difficulties producing some of the complex structures that are necessary for the simultaneous expression of several semantic components. Nonetheless, in addition to these striking cross-linguistic differences, the results of this study also clearly show similar developmental progressions in other respects, suggesting the impact of general developmental determinants. |
Contents
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Experimental study on the expression of motion events in French and German | 135 |
Discussion | 315 |
Appendix | 333 |
References | 359 |
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across-events adult age adverbs age groups auxiliary verb C+MAc causative verbs caused motion events Chomsky Cognitivism complex concepts Construction Grammar control items descriptions down-events encoded MANNER encoded PATH event type example expressed F10 FAD Fall four-year-olds framed languages French children French speakers frequent G10 GAD Gall gehen to go German children German speakers gerund grammar guage Hendriks Hickmann I-Language idiosyncratic illustrated Information Focus language acquisition language-specific lexicalization patterns light verb linguistic determinism linguistic devices main clauses main verb Manner of action MANNER-verbs MANNER+PATH motion verbs MP-responses nativist object's motion particles Path-types Path-verb Piaget Popi prepositional phrases pushes relative clause representations response type roll satellite-framed languages satellites semantic components semantic density semantic information semantically-neutral verbs Slobin spatial speakers produced specific subordinate clause Table Talmy target event target items tion Tomasello TS-responses tun-constructions typical universal grammar up-events utterances verb constructions verb types verb-framed languages verbal versus voluntary motion