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Chapter 5. Acquisition of 3 pl verb markings by (very) advanced FSL learners and bilingual Franco­phone students

  • Raymond Mougeon , Françoise Mougeon and Katherine Rehner
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Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition
This chapter is in the book Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition

Abstract

This study examines acquisition of distinctive 3pl markings of French verbs by bilingual Franco­phone students attending French-medium high schools in four Ontario Franco­phone communities of varying demographic strength and by learners enrolled in high school immersion or university FSL programs in Toronto. It documents the impact of the following factors: (i) the discursive frequency of the verbs; (ii) the students’ exposure to French in and outside of school, (iii) their individual frequency of use of French, (iv) teachers’ in class speech, and (v) invariant vs. variable use of the 3pl verb markings in the local varieties of French. The impact of these factors is manifested by different patterns of intergroup hierarchies in rates of acquisition.

Abstract

This study examines acquisition of distinctive 3pl markings of French verbs by bilingual Franco­phone students attending French-medium high schools in four Ontario Franco­phone communities of varying demographic strength and by learners enrolled in high school immersion or university FSL programs in Toronto. It documents the impact of the following factors: (i) the discursive frequency of the verbs; (ii) the students’ exposure to French in and outside of school, (iii) their individual frequency of use of French, (iv) teachers’ in class speech, and (v) invariant vs. variable use of the 3pl verb markings in the local varieties of French. The impact of these factors is manifested by different patterns of intergroup hierarchies in rates of acquisition.

Chapters in this book

  1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Theory in language acquisition research
  6. Chapter 2. Linguistic approaches to language acquisition 16
  7. Gender in bilingual and heritage language acquisition
  8. Chapter 3. Acquisition of morpho-syntactic features in a bilingual Italian child 54
  9. Chapter 4. Gender assignment in German as a heritage language in an English-speaking context 88
  10. Input and exposure in the classroom
  11. Chapter 5. Acquisition of 3 pl verb markings by (very) advanced FSL learners and bilingual Franco­phone students 118
  12. Chapter 6. L2 intonation perception in learners of Spanish 144
  13. Evidence in controlled first exposure language learning
  14. Chapter 7. Isolated and combined effects of models and corrective feedback in the acquisition of the Turkish locative morpheme 162
  15. Chapter 8. First exposure to Russian word forms by adult English speakers 191
  16. Input and evidence in the acquisition of syntactic structure
  17. Chapter 9. Speech modifications and the Processability Theory hierarchy 226
  18. Chapter 10. Varieties of DP recursion 245
  19. Proper name index 267
  20. Subject index 271
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.69.05mou

Chapters in this book

  1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Theory in language acquisition research
  6. Chapter 2. Linguistic approaches to language acquisition 16
  7. Gender in bilingual and heritage language acquisition
  8. Chapter 3. Acquisition of morpho-syntactic features in a bilingual Italian child 54
  9. Chapter 4. Gender assignment in German as a heritage language in an English-speaking context 88
  10. Input and exposure in the classroom
  11. Chapter 5. Acquisition of 3 pl verb markings by (very) advanced FSL learners and bilingual Franco­phone students 118
  12. Chapter 6. L2 intonation perception in learners of Spanish 144
  13. Evidence in controlled first exposure language learning
  14. Chapter 7. Isolated and combined effects of models and corrective feedback in the acquisition of the Turkish locative morpheme 162
  15. Chapter 8. First exposure to Russian word forms by adult English speakers 191
  16. Input and evidence in the acquisition of syntactic structure
  17. Chapter 9. Speech modifications and the Processability Theory hierarchy 226
  18. Chapter 10. Varieties of DP recursion 245
  19. Proper name index 267
  20. Subject index 271
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