L'acquisition des déterminants nominaux en français et en allemand: une perspective interlangue sur la grammaticalisation des noms
Résumé
In many languages, noun determiner acquisition is a central aspect of the emergence of grammar in children. The study compares the development of determiners -between one and three years of age- in the spontaneous production data of two children who acquire French and Austrian German, respectively. Starting with the contrast between Romance and Germanic languages and focusing on morphosyntactic factors, it evaluates the impact of typological and language-specific differences on determiner acquisition. We examine the prediction of earlier emergence of determiners in French than in German and the classical hypotheses on the pre-eminence of definite over indefinite, masculine over feminine and singular over plural in the light of developmental data.