Jij doe wat girafe? wh-movement and inversion in dutch-french bilingual children

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-205

  Pérez Leroux, Ana T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic influence; Derivational complexity; Simultaneous bilingual acquisition; Structural overlap; Wh questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989366099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.1.2.03str     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Adger, D. (2003). Core Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Argyri, E., & Sorace, A. (2007). Crosslinguistic influence and language dominance in older bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10(1), 79-99.
3. Austin, J., Blume, M. & Sánchez, L. (2009). Morphosyntactic development in the heritage Spanish of Spanish-English bilingual children. Ms. Rutgers University.
4. Bellugi, U. (1971). Simplification in children’s language. In R. Huxley & E. Ingram (eds.), Language acquisition: models and methods. London: Academic Press.
5. Blom, E. (2003). From root infinitive to finite sentence. PhD dissertation, University of Utrecht.
6. Bohnacker, U. (2007). On the “vulnerability” of syntactic domains in Swedish and German. Language Acquisition 14(1), 31-73.
7. Bonnesen, M. (2005). Der erwerb der linken Satzperipherie bei Französisch/Deutsch bilingual aufwachsenden Kindern. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Hamburg, Germany.
8. Cantone, K., Kupisch, T., Müller, N. & Schmitz, K. (2008). Rethinking language dominance in bilingual children. Linguistische Berichte, 215, 307-343.
9. Cheng, L. & Rooryck, J. (2000). Licensing wh-in-situ, Syntax, 3 (1), 1-19.
10. Chomsky, N. (2005). On Phases, Ms., MIT.
11. Coveney, A. (2002). Variability in Spoken French. A Sociolinguistic Study of Interrogation and Negation. Bristol: Elm Bank.
12. Crisma, P. (1992). On the acquisition of wh-questions in French. Geneva Generative Papers 1(2), 115-121
13. Cuza, A. (2009). Atrición sintáctica en el español nativo: Opcionalidad fuera de las interfaces. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2009.
14. De Cat, C. & Plunkett, B. (2002). QU’ est ce qu’ i(l) dit, celui+L.?.: notes m.thodologiques sur la transcription d’un corpus francophone. In C. Pusch & W. Raible (eds.), Romanistische Korpuslinguistik: Korpora und gesprochene Sprache/Romance Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Spoken Language (= ScriptOralia; 126). Tübingen: Narr, CD-rom.
15. De Houwer, A. (1990). The Acquisition of two Languages from Birth: A Case study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. De Houwer, A. (2009). Bilingual First Language Acquisition. Bristol, Buffalo: Multilingual Matters.
17. Den Besten, H. (1977). On the interaction of root transformation and lexical delitive rules. In W. Abraham (ed.), On the formal syntax of the Westgermania (pp. 47-131). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
18. Foroodi-Nejad, F., & Paradis, J. (2009). Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in Farsi-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12, 411-427.
19. Gadet, F. (1989). Le français ordinaire. Paris: Armand Colin/Masson.
20. Gawlitzek-Maiwald, I. & Tracy, R. (1996). Bilingual bootstrapping. In Two languages: Studies in bilingual first and second language development, N. Müller (ed). [Linguistics 34], 901-926.
21. Grevisse, M. & Goosse, A. (1993). Le bon usage: grammaire française. Louvain-La- Neuve: De Boeck Duculot.
22. Hamann, C. (2000). The acquisition of constituent questions and the requirements of interpretation. In M.A. Friedemann & L. Rizzi (eds.), The acquisition of syntax (pp. 170-201). London, New York: Longman.
23. Hamann, C. (2006). Speculations about early syntax: The production of wh-questions by normally developing French children and French children with SLI. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 5, 143-189.
24. Howell, D. (2007). Statistical methods for psychology. Belmont, CA: Thompson/Wadsworth.
25. Hulk, A. (1996). The syntax of wh-questions in child French. Amsterdam-Series-in-Child-Lan-guage-Development, 5, 129-172.
26. Hulk, A. & Müller, N. (2000). Bilingual first language acquisition at the interface between syntax and pragmatics. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 3(3), 227-244.
27. Hulk, A. & Zuckerman, S. (2000). The interaction between input and economy: Acquiring op-tionality in French wh-questions. In S. Catherine Howell et al. (eds.), BUCLD 24 Proceedings (pp. 438-449). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
28. Jakubowicz, C. (2005). The language faculty: (Ab) Normal development and interface constraints. Paper presented at GALA 2005, Siena, Italy.
29. Jakubowicz C. & Strik, N. (2008). Scope-marking Strategies in the Acquisition of Long Distance Wh-questions in French and Dutch. Language and Speech, 51 (1 & 2), 101-132.
30. Koster, J. (1975). Dutch as an SOV Language. Linguistic Analysis, 1, 111-136.
31. Kwan-Terry, A. (1986). The acquisition of word order in English and Cantonese interrogative sentences: a Singapore case study. RELC Journal, 17, 14-39.
32. MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk. Third Edition. Mah-wah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
33. Meisel, J. (1989). Early differentiation of languages in bilingual children. In K. Hyltenstam & L. Ober (eds.), Bilingualism Across the Life Span: Aspects of Acquisition, Maturity and Loss (pp. 13-40). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Meisel, J. (2007). On autonomous syntactic development in multiple first language acquisition. In H. Caunt-Nulton et al. (eds.), BUCLD 31 Proceedings (pp. 26-45). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press
35. Merchant, J. (1998). ‘Pseudosluicing’: Elliptical clefts in Japanese and English. In A. Alexiadou, N. Fuhrhop, P. Law & U. Kleinhenz (eds.), ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics 10. Berlin: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.
36. Mishina-Mori, S. (2005). Autonomous and interdependent development of two language systems in Japanese/English simultaneous bilinguals: evidence from question formation. First Language, 25, 291-315.
37. Morgenstern, A. & Parisse, C. (2007). Codage et interprétation du langage spontané d’enfants de 1 a 3 ans. Corpus no 6 “Interprétation, contextes, codage”, (pp. 55-78).
38. Müller, N. (ed) (2003). (In)vulnerable domains in multilingualism. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
39. Obenauer, H. (1981). Le principe des categories vides et la syntaxe des interrogatives complexes. Langue Française, 52, 100-118.
40. Paradis, J. & Genesee, F. (1996). Syntactic acquisition in bilingual Children: autonomous or interdependent? Studies in Second Language Acquisition 18: 1-25.
41. Park, S. (2008). The acquisition of wh-questions by Korean-English bilingual children: the role of crosslinguistic influence. MA thesis, Purdue University.
42. Pérez-Leroux, A.T. & Dalious, J. (1998). The acquisition of Spanish interrogative inversion. Hispanic Linguistics, 10, 84-114.
43. Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2011). Clitic placement in Spanish/English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14(2).
44. Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Pirvulescu, M. & Roberge, Y. (2009). Bilingualism as a window into the language faculty: The acquisition of objects in French-speaking children in bilingual and monolingual contexts. Bilingualism:Language and Cognition 12(1), 97-112.
45. Pesetsky, D. & Torrego, E. (2001). T-to-C Movement: Causes and Consequences. In M. Kensto-wicz (ed.). Ken Hale: A Life in Language (pp. 355-426). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
46. Platzack, C. (2001). The vulnerable C-domain. Brain and Language, 77, 364-377.
47. Plunkett, B. (1999). Targeting complex structure in French questions. In A. Greenhill, et al. (eds.), BUCLD 23 Proceedings (pp. 764-775). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
48. Poletto, C. & Pollock, J.-Y. (2000). On the Left Periphery of Some Romance Wh-Questions. In L. Rizzi (ed.), The Structure of CP and IP (pp. 251-296). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
49. Prévost, P., Tuller, L., Scheidnes, M., Ferré, S. & Haiden, M. (2010). Computational Complexity Effects in the Acquisition of Wh-Questions in Child L2 French. In L. Dominguez & P. Guijarres-Fuentes (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn III. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Publisher.
50. Riegel, M., Pellat J.C. & Rioul, R. (1994). Grammaire méthodique du français. Paris: PUF.
51. Rooryck, J. (1994). On two types of underspecification: towards a feature theory shared by syntax and phonology. Probus, 6, 207-233.
52. Ruhland, R., Wijnen, F., van Geert, P. (1995). An exploration into the application of dynamic systems modelling to language acquisition. In M. Verrips, F. Wijnen (eds.), Approaches to parameter setting (Amsterdam Series in Child Language Acquisition 4) (pp. 107-134). Institute for General Linguistics, Amsterdam.
53. Soriente, A. (2007). Cross-linguistic and cognitive aspects in the acquisition of WH-questions in an Italian-Indonesian bilingual child. In I. Kesckes & L. Albertazzi (eds.), Cognitive aspects of bilingualism (pp. 325-362). Dordrecht: Springer.
54. Strik, N. (2007). L’acquisition des phrases interrogatives chez les enfants francophones. Psychologie Française, 52, 27-39.
55. Strik, N. (2008). Syntaxe et acquisition des phrases interrogatives en français et en néerlandais: une étude contrastive. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Université Paris 8, France.
56. Strik, N. submitted. Wh-questions in child bilingual acquisition of French: derivational complexity and cross-linguistic influence.
57. Suppes, P., Smith, R., & Leveillé, M. (1973). The French syntax of a child’s noun phrases. Archives de Psychologie, 42, 207-269.
58. Thornton, R. (2004). Why continuity. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla & C.E. Smith (eds.), BUCLD 28 Proceedings, (pp. 620-632). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
59. Van Kampen, J. (1997). First Steps in Wh-movement. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
60. Vinet, M.T. (2001). D’un français à un autre. La syntaxe de la microvariation. Saint-Laurent, Québec: Editions Fides.
61. Yip, V. & Matthews, S. (2000). Syntactic transfer in a Cantonese-English bilingual child. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 3, 193-208.
62. Yip, V & Matthews, S. (2007). The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
63. Yip, V. & Matthews, S. (2009). Conditions on cross-linguistic influence in bilingual acquisition: the case of wh-interrogatives. Paper presented at the 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Utrecht, Netherlands. July 2009.
64. Zuckerman, S. (2001): The acquisition of “optional” movement. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
65. Zwart, J.W (1997). The Morphosyntax of Verb Movement: A Minimalist Approach to Dutch Syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.