The syntactic development of school-age Chinese-speaking children learning English  

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Xiao, Yun

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 40 no. 3 (2002), page 235-269.
Fulltext: IRAl vol 40 no 3 p 235-269.pdf (1.58MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/40 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study investigates the role of topic-prominence properties in the syntactic development of Chinese-speaking children were observed once every other week over an eight-month period in Hawaii. Their production was compared with that of their English counterparts. While there is evidence of target subject-prominence properties in the Chinese-speaking children's speech, topic-prominence properties were also found. It is suggested that the source of these topic-prominence properties is an in teraction of first language influence, discourse/pragmatic language universals, and perceptual saliency. All of the subject development, which was the fastest and most stable. However, the topic-prominence properties have shown little or no change except for those which are in direct contrast with the subject-prominence properties. A relative developmentalsequence is noted for subject-prominence development over time as well as for some of the topic-prominence properties.

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