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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 mono- and 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Keywords
- CIA World Factbook
- Colloquial Singapore English
- cross-linguistic influence
- crosslinguistic influence
- Data set
- De Houwer
- Linear Mixed Effects Models
- MLU Score
- MLU Value
- Multilingual Language Acquisition
- Native Speaker Concept
- Null Subject Languages
- Past tense
- Past Tense Marking
- Singapore Cohort
- Singapore Group
- Singaporean Children
- Speak Good English Movement
- Story Retelling Task
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBX Language: history and general works
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDM Bilingualism and multilingualism
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
- Unmarked Forms
- Unmarked Verb Forms
- Unmarked Verbs
- Vice Versa
- Vowel length
- Vowel Merger
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315201030Editions