17.3358, Books: Psycholinguistics: Aman

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Date: 13-Nov-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: The Acquisition of Malay Wh-Questions: Aman 

	
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:35:02
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: The Acquisition of Malay Wh-Questions: Aman 
 

Title: The Acquisition of Malay Wh-Questions 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 19  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu
	
Author: Norhaida Aman

Loose Leaf: ISBN: 9783895863806 Pages: 350 Price: Europe EURO 74


Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to provide an account of children's
acquisition of wh-questions in the variety of Malay spoken in Singapore.
The work examines how children acquire colloquial Malay, the language to
which they are exposed at home and in the speech community before they are
taught the standard, formal language in school.  It is intended to be a
contribution to the study of how children acquire typologically distinct
language.  In addition, it is a contribution to the examination of the
grammar of colloquial Malay, a topic which has not been given much
attention in studies of the Malay language.  The following issues are
examined: children's knowledge of the different options for asking simple
questions (wh-in situ, questions employing wh-movement and focus
questions), their knowledge of these question types in long-distance
questions, and the role of island constraints in the syntax of these
question types in the Malay of young children.  The study uses two
experimental methodologies; a comprehension task (the picture-story method)
and a production task (elicited imitation).  It is also based on a
longitudinal spontaneous production study of two Malay-speaking children.

In addition to its descriptive value, the thesis is of theoretical
interest.  According to the innateness hypothesis, children have a
biologically determined knowledge of Universal Grammar, and universals like
the island constraints on movement are respected by all languages.  Contrary to
these expectations, the empirical evidence discussed in this thesis shows that
Malay-speaking children, ages 4;5-6;5, appear not to respect island constraints
on wh-movement.  A careful analysis of the results, however, shows that this
seeming challenge to Universal Grammar is more apparent than real, and that the
island
violations are the result of a processing effect in which in situ wh-questions,
which are not subject to islands, prime the responses for the fully moved questions.




Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): Malay (mly)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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