Paths in L2 Acquisition: The Expression of Temporality in Spatially Oriented Narration

Annie-Claude Demagny (1)

1 SFL - Structures Formelles du Langage

This chapter examines the two domains of Space and Time in Adult Second Language Acquisition. It compares how English-speaking learners of French L2 and native speakers of French and English mark boundaries and simultaneity in controlled situation where they had to describe motion events. The results show crosslinguistic differences in the discourse of French vs. English natives that can be related to the particular temporal-aspectual and spatial systems of these languages

Mots clés: Second language acquisition; Temporality; Relation between spatiality ad temporality; Psycholinguistics

Mots clés: Acquisition d'une langue seconde par l'adulte; Typologie des langues/Typology; relation entre les domaines de la spatialité et de la temporalité

Domaines: Linguistique

Annie-Claude Demagny. Paths in L2 Acquisition: The Expression of Temporality in Spatially Oriented Narration. Multilingual Matters. Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition - A tribute to Clive Perdue, Multilingual Matters Publisher, pp.482-501, 2012, Second Language Acquisition, 978-1-84769-603-8. ⟨hal-01012037v2⟩