Acquisition of French in Multilingual Contexts

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes is Associate Professor in Spanish at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. His research interests lie in the field of Spanish applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and bilingualism and he has authored and co-authored numerous book chapters and articles in international journals.Katrin Schmitz is Junior Professor of Romance linguistics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Her research focuses on the development of French, Italian and Spanish, both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.Natascha Müller is Chair of Romance linguistics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Her research focuses on the syntax of Romance languages and their acquisition. Currently, she is working on the simultaneous acquisition of three first languages.

• Introduction      1. Anika Schmeißer and Veronika Jansen: Finite Verb Placement in French Language Change and in Bilingual German-French Acquisition2. Jasmin Geveler and Natascha Müller: Wh-fronting and Wh-in-situ in the Acquisition of French: Really Variants?               3. Laurent Dekydtspotter and Kelly Farmer: On the Processing of Subject Clefts in English-French Interlanguage: Parsing to Learn and the Subject Relativizer Qui4. Anna Frolova: Verbal Transitivity Development in First Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Russian, French and English         5. Anne-Katharina Harr and Maya Hickmann: Static and Dynamic Location in French and German Child Language               6. Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Françoise Tidball: Can L2 Learners Learn New Ways to Conceptualise Events? A New Approach to Restructuring in Motion Event Construal7. Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes: A Bidirectional Study: Is There Any Role for Transfer in Adjective Placement?             8. Julia Herschensohn and Deborah Arteaga: Parameters, Processing and Feature Re-assembly in L2 French DP 9. Katrin Schmitz: Concluding Remarks  References

This volume is a very interesting collection of articles on the acquisition of linguistic phenomena in French as (2)L1 and L2. The authors present and discuss new processing and production data by different learner populations in various language combinations and contexts, raising new and challenging issues, both for linguistic and cognitive development. A must-read for every (generative) linguist interested in the bilingual acquisition of French.