Morphosyntactic Development in Bilingual Children  

Oleh:

Sinka, Indra ; Schelletter, Christina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 3 (Nov. 1998), page 301-326.
Topik: German/English; Latvian/English; morphosyntactic development
Fulltext: 301-326.pdf (1.44MB)

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This paper addresses the morphosyntactic dcvclopment of two bilingual children and the issues raised by the controversy behveen the single system and the separate development hypotheses. Set within a generative grammar frame\vork, evidence on GermanlEnglish and LatvianlEnglish is presented from the earliest stages of language development: for the GermanlEnglish child from 2;O to 2;6, for the LatvianlEnglish child from 1;3 to 1;ll. For the GermanlEnglish data, the results show early word order patterns which are in line with the language-specific orders ofboth languages. In the LatvianlEnglish data, there is correct inflectional marking on nouns and verbs in Latvian from the earliest stagcs,contrary to the paucity ofsuch marking in English. Hence the evidence from both children supports the view that the bilingual child separates the two languages from the beginning (Separate Development Hypothesis). In addition, the data show a developmental lead-lag pattern whereby functional categories emerge first in the more inflected language (German and Latvian) and later in English.

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