The Acquisition of Word Order in English and Cantonese Interrogative Sentences: A Singapore Case Study  

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Kwan-Terry, Anna

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 17 no. 1 (Jun. 1986), page 14-39.
Topik: The Acquisition of Word Order in English and Cantonese Interrogative Sentences
Fulltext: RELC 1986,VOL.17,NO.1 hal 14-39.pdf (1.16MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/REL/17 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where many children, from an early age, are exposed to at least two languages, of which the children’s ethnic language is one, and English is in many cases the other. In the case of children of Chinese origin, this ethnic or native language is often a Chinese dialect, e.g. Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese. In this paper, attention is therefore paid not only to how the subject in the present study acquired the word order system for interrogative sentences in English, but also how he acquired the same for interrogative sentences in Cantonese which is his ethnic language or native dialect. The focus of this paper is how the simultaneous acquisition of two languages as different as English and Cantonese affected the acquisition process, especially in relation to word order, and under what conditions interlanguage transfer occurred.

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