Acquiring German and French in a bilingual setting / Peter Jordens -- The DUFDE project / Regina Köppe -- The acquisition of gender and number morphology within NP / Caroline Koehn -- Gender and number agreement within DP / Natascha Müller -- Getting FAT : fitness, agreement, and tense in early grammars / Jürgen M. Meisel -- More about INFL-ection and agreement : the acquisition of clitic pronouns in French / Georg Kaiser -- Case assignment and functional categories in bilingual children / Achim Stenzel -- NP-movement and subject raising / Regina Köppe -- Parameters cannot be reset : evidence from the development of COMP / Natascha Müller
Summary
The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific grammatical phenomena; explanations are given within the framework of the Principle and Parameter approach. The study is primarily concerned with the acquisition of so-called 'functional categories' and the consequences of their acquisition for the development of grammar. Specific points dealt with in these pap
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