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In:Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages
Edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Cecilia Andorno
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 278] 2017
► pp. 265–310

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Chapter 9
Additive relations in L2 French

Contrasting acquisitional trends of Italian and Russian learners

 | Université Paris 8, CNRS UMR 7023 SFL
 | Université de Lille, CNRS UMR 8163 STL
Published online: 24 August 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.278.09ben
Abstract
Our study compares the expression of additive relations in oral native (French, Italian, Russian) and non-native discourse (French L2), elicited with the same visual stimulus. On the basis of a comparative analysis of native productions, we argue that, in additive contexts, Russian clearly shares the discourse perspective attested in the two Romance languages. Our French L2 data have shown that both Russian and Italian groups seem to proceed by looking for similarities with respect to their L1, but learners of a closer typological language (Italian L1) rely longer on structures that are formally (or functionally) similar and assume more similarities than there actually are, in comparison to learners of typologically unrelated language (Russian L1), thus confirming the psycho-typology effects.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
    • 2.1Additive particles and discourse perspective: Some cross-linguistic differences
    • 2.2Previous research on the L2 acquisition of additive particles
  • 3.The present study
    • 3.1Objectives and participants
    • 3.2 The task: The Finite Story and its additive contexts
    • 3.3Procedure
  • 4.Additive relations in native speakers’ narratives
    • 4.1Proportion of markings and linguistic repertoire
    • 4.2Structural integration of the additive particles in the utterance
    • 4.3Comparative remarks on native productions and hypothesis on French L2 acquisition
  • 5.Additive relations in French L2
    • 5.1Proportion of markings
    • 5.2Linguistic repertoire
      • 5.2.1Italian L1–French L2: Linguistic means used
      • 5.2.2Russian L1–French L2: Linguistic means used
    • 5.3Structural integration of additive items in French L2
    • 5.4Summary and discussion
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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