This study investigated early lexical development in French by analysing changes and
variability in lexical production and composition of children's spontaneous speech samples …

This paper investigates developmental changes, as well as inter-linguistic and inter-
individual variations, in the expansion and composition of French children's early lexicons …

Accounts of language development vary in whether they view lexical and grammatical
development as being mediated by a single or by separate mechanisms. In a single …

This paper presents fine-grained longitudinal analyses of one child's language production
over the period of change from single to multiword utterances. For a better understanding of …

Cross-linguistic studies have shown that children can vary markedly in rate, style, and
sequence of grammatical development, within and across natural languages. It is less clear …

Statistical analysis of morphosyntax acquisition in French children aged two to four can be
conducted at two levels. At the local level, regularities in the immediate lexical context of a …

This chapter reviews the rich empirical findings on children's lexical behaviours throughout
the one-word stage, and to present the major theoretical arguments that so far have been …

This paper explores the early lexicon development of 548 monolingual French-speaking
infants aged 8; 0—16; 0. Vocabulary acquisition was followed using the French adaptation …

This study investigates when and how French-learning children acquire the main
grammatical constraint on the noun category, ie the obligatory use of a preceding …

This paper considers whether the child's early vocabulary shows signs of being organized
into word categories. Two main kinds of evidence are looked for: i. differential production of …