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Les déterminants typologiques dans l’acquisition de la langue maternelle
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Auteur / Autrice : Anne-Katharina Ochsenbauer
Direction : Maya HickmannKatrin Lindner
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Sciences du langage
Date : Soutenance en 2010
Etablissement(s) : Paris 8 en cotutelle avec Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich, Allemagne)

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Typological approaches show striking differences in the morphosyntax and semantics of the language of motion that have implications for language acquisition presently examined in psycholinguistic research. This thesis examines the expression of voluntary and caused motion events by German and French children and adults. The results concerning the adults clearly show the expected typological patterns in these two language types (satellite- vs. Verb-framed). In German, semantic components (CAUSE, MANNER and PATH) are systematically expressed in compact structures. In French, however, lexicalization patterns vary strongly because the simultaneous expression of multiple semantic components requires subordinate elements such as gerunds. From a developmental point of view, children follow the same patterns: German children from six years on use compact syntactic patterns typical of their mother tongue enabling them to encode most of the time all necessary semantic components; in contrast, French children up to ten years express less information because they have difficulties producing the complex structures that are necessary to encode multiple semantic components. In addition to these language-specific determinants, the data also clearly show developmental progressions in both languages, showing the impact of general developmental determinants.