Edited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot
This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive… read more
The interrogative is a variable with multiple forms in French, including yes/no and wh-questions, influenced by sociolinguistic factors. This chapter presents a study on the acquisition of interrogatives in French, based on two corpora of naturalistic language data collected in preschool through… read more
Despite repeated calls for in-depth research, the acquisition of patterns of sociolinguistic variation has long been an underinvestigated topic both in sociolinguistics and in language acquisition research. With the exception of a few exploratory studies, most notably Labov (1964), it has long been… read more