
Title | Acquisition en Français L1 des syntagmes interrogatifs prépositionnels |
Publication Type | Manuscrit |
Année de publication | 2017 |
Authors | Thiberge, Gabriel |
Date de publication | 06/2017 |
Institution | Université Paris-Diderot |
City | Paris |
Keywords | Acquisition, complexity, corpus study, movement, preposition, questions |
Abstract | In this thesis, I focus on the relationship between the preposition and its Wh- complement in French partial interrogatives, and on how much the production of such interrogatives is affected by prepositions. I investigate this in a quantitative as well as qualitative manner, by contrasting adult with early French data, both retrieved in spoken corpora such as CHILDES transcriptions. If the fronting of the Wh- element in French questions is a movement from an underlying argument position, moving a Wh- phrase introduced by a preposition appear to be more costly than it is for a bare Wh- phrase. This applies even more strongly to children, who we already know encounter difficulties with Wh- movement in the early stages of their linguistic development. Both French adults and children favor in situ constructions when using prepositional Wh- phrases, as compared to their use of bare Wh- phrases. Though similar in some aspects to that of bare Wh- phrases, the acquisition process for prepositional Wh- phrases also appears to be more complex: it is delayed, it does not follow a clear pattern, ‘try-out’ strategies are found among children productions, and in situ constructions are used even more. |
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