Bibliography on Child Language Work in Singapore

[Rebeca Barriga Villanueva]

Congratulations for the excelent contribution of Madalena Cruz- Ferreira. Bibliography is a very special challange. To share with us these results is a very genenerous gesture. Thanks to Brian MacWhinney for making us aware of this  news.
 
Best regards
 
Rebeca Barriga Villanueva
Profesora Investigadora
Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios
El Colegio de México

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De: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org en nombre de Brian MacWhinney
Enviado el: Jue 10/08/2006 02:56 p.m.
Para: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
Asunto: Bibliography on Child Language Work in Singapore



Dear Info-CHILDES,
    I am happy to announce the addition to the CHILDES/BIB of a 
collection of 331 references to child language research that focuses 
on language learning in Singapore.  This collection was contributed 
by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira and colleagues.  To locate these references 
within the larger database, just look for records in which the 
Keywords field says "Singapore".  I have also integrated into the 
larger database the 1040 records on Spanish contributed by Rebeca 
Barriga-Villanueva and colleagues and the 1153 records contributed by 
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira and colleagues.  Similarly, these can be 
located by searching for "Spanish" or "Portuguese" in the Keywords 
field.  All of these materials and the relevant documentation can be 
downloaded from http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/bibs/

--Brian MacWhinney

    Here is the documentation file from Madalena Cruz-Ferreira 
explaining the recently contributed Singapore Bibliography:

The following is an update on a bibliography of research in Singapore 
child language. This bibliography spans the past two decades up to 
ongoing studies on monolingual or multilingual English, Mandarin, 
Malay and Tamil as used in Singapore, by and to typically and 
atypically developing children, at home or elsewhere, written in 
English, and includes research on educational and pedagogical issues, 
as well as on developmental norming and remediation.

The present scope of the bibliography stems from several limitations. 
Self-imposed limitations concern, for example, the omission of 
references, whether published or academic research pieces, whose 
titles I found vague and whose abstracts are unavailable to resolve 
this vagueness, and the inclusion of studies dealing with the 
language used to the child, on my assumption that analyses of child 
language can only make sense with clear information about linguistic 
targets surrounding the child. One more inherent limitation concerns 
my illiteracy in three of the four languages used in Singapore, which 
explains the absence of references written in Chinese, Malay and Tamil.

The long-term goal of this bibliographical database is to provide a 
regularly updated source of information on child language research in 
the broader South-East Asian region, preferably in different 
languages. It is my hope that researchers in child language, in 
Singapore as elsewhere in the SE Asian region, will want to come back 
to me with information and suggestions that may turn this 
bibliography into a research tool that can truly serve its users.

Putting together a usable bibliography is not a one-person 
assignment. The following colleagues (this includes current and past 
students) generously contributed contacts and details on their own 
research, as well as their time: Norhaida Aman, Chris Brebner, Chen 
Ee San, Joseph A. Foley, Anthea Fraser Gupta, Low Ee Ling, Ng Bee 
Chin, Tomasina Oh, Susan J. Rickard Liow, Hazel See Lei Chia, Seetha 
Lakshmi, Rita E. Silver, Tan Liang Hui, Tan Seok Hui and Linda 
Thompson. Thank you for making this undertaking possible.