The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on Functional Categories

Abstract

THE ACQUISITION OF FRENCH IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS: FOCUS ON FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. Philippe Prévost and Johanne Paradis (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004. Pp. 381. $132.00 cloth.This collection of essays explores, in a generative framework, the acquisition of functional categories in French across four “acquisition contexts” (p. 1): first language (L1) acquisition, second language (L2) acquisition, bilingual L1 acquisition, and L1 acquisition by people with specific language impairment (SLI).