"Where is my brush-teeth?" Acquisition of compound nouns in a French-English bilingual child  

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Nicoladis, Elena

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2001 - ) vol. 2 no. 3 (Dec. 1999), page 245-256.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/BLC/2 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study had two purposes: (i) to see if bilingual children can differentiate their languages with respect to theability to form compound nouns and (ii) to test the validity of previous expalnations of the acquisition of compounds. Compound nouns are right-headed in English and left-headed in French. If the French-English bilingual child in this study could differentiate between the two compounding rules, his compound should show differential order based on the language of the semantic head. The analysis was based on the child's spontaneous compound productions from 2;9 to 3;3. The results showed that the language choice of the semantic head noun predicted the order of his compounds, suggesting that he had two distinct compounding rules. The pattern of errors made by the child cannot be accounted for by any previous explanation alone. It is suggested that children use various cues to learn compound structure.

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