Processus cognitifs de la construction du lexique verbal dans l'acquisition (L1 et L2)

: The emergence of the lexicon for events is rather late in L1 acquisition, compared to the lexicon for entities, but the same holds for subsequent L2 acquisition. The semantic processing of verbs by children and adults shows a greater flexibility than the processing of nouns : explanations to that are the relational nature of verbs, and the fact that the lexical categorization of events is less determined by perception than structured by language-specific lexicalisation patterns. When a child’s variety – or a learner variety – contains few verbs, their semantic flexibility will be maximally used, notably by analogical processes. MOTS-CLÉS :lexique verbal – acquisition de L1 et de L2 – flexibilité sémantique – analogie