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Passiverwerb im Deutschen, Niederländischen und Französischen als L1 : Eine vergleichende Studie der grammatikspezifischen Bedingungen

Dewez, Emelyne

(2023)

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Supervisors

Sabel, Joachim

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

enThis paper aims at an analysis of specific features in different languages that could have an influence on the acquisition of passive by children. A previous study of Armon-Lotem & al. (2016) has shown that languages with a freer word order could be acquired sooner than those with a stricter word order. In order to confirm this hypothesis, the acquisition of passive structures will be compared among German-, Dutch- and French-speaking children. Three hypotheses will be further analysed: 1) In view of the similitudes between German and Dutch, the acquisition of passive structures in these languages will show the same process, 2) German- and Dutch-speaking children will acquire passive structures sooner than their French-speaking peers, 3) Short passive sentences with an adjectival interpretation will be acquired sooner than full passive sentences. The results of this paper show that the language typology is a possible factor for the interpretation and acquisition of the first passive structures. For this reason, French-speaking children acquire the passive later than German- and Dutch-speaking children. Therefore, it can be assumed that French-speaking children who get more input with non-canonical word order, could acquire the passive sooner. To a lesser degree, word semantics play also a role in the acquisition of passive structures.