Children's English in Singapore Acquisition, Properties, and Use

• Main Author: Buschfeld, Sarah
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2019; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Englishes
• Subjects: Bilingualism and multilingualism; Child Language Acquisition; CIA World Factbook; cognitive linguistics; Colloquial Singapore English; Cross-linguistic Influence; Crosslinguistic Influence; De Houwer; English language; English language > Dialects > Singapore; English language > Singapore > Acquisition; First Language Acquisition methodology; Grammar & Language Usage; Interdisciplinary studies; L1 Singapore English; Language Acquisition; Language and Linguistics; Language Arts; Language Arts & Disciplines; language organization; Language variation; Language. Philosophy and theory; Language: history and general works; Language: reference and general; Linear Mixed Effects Models; Linguistics; MLU Score; MLU Value; multilingual; Multilingual Language Acquisition; multilingual Singapore; Multilingualism; Native Speaker Concept; Nonfiction; Null Subject Languages; Past Tense; Past Tense Marking; Psycholinguistics; Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Singapore Cohort; Singapore English; Singapore Group; Singaporean Children; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociolinguistics; South East Asian Culture & Society; Speak Good English Movement; Story Retelling Task; Unmarked Forms; Unmarked Verb Forms; Unmarked Verbs; Varieties of English; Vice Versa; Vowel Length; Vowel Merger; World Englishes; youth; First Language Acquisition methodology; Linear Mixed Effects Models; Language variation; cognitive linguistics; Cross-linguistic Influence; Data Set; Vice Versa; Singapore Cohort; Past Tense Marking; youth; Unmarked Verbs; Multilingual Language Acquisition; Vowel Length; MLU Score; Child Language Acquisition; Singapore English; multilingual; Vowel Merger; CIA World Factbook; MLU Value; Singaporean children; Past Tense; Unmarked Verb Forms; L1 Singapore English; Singapore Group; Story Retelling Task; language organization; Null Subject Languages; De Houwer; Unmarked Forms; multilingualism; Native Speaker Concept; Colloquial Singapore English; World Englishes; multilingual Singapore; Crosslinguistic Influence; Speak Good English Movement
• ISBN: 9781351780797; 1351780794; 9781138708877; 1138708879; 103208202X; 9781032082028; 9781315201030; 1315201038; 1351780778; 1351780786; 9781351780773; 9781351780780
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315201030

Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children's acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore English, as well as the acquisitional route that Singaporean children take. It discusses characteristics at the different levels of language organization, i.e., phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical, and pragmatic features, drawing on a variety of systematically elicited data and Praat-based acoustic analyses. Comparing the results to similar data obtained from children living in England (both monoand bi-/multilingual), the book also sheds light on how the acquisitional steps taken by Singaporean children differ from or are similar to traditional native speakers of English and children from immigrant families in England.